International Youth Day Celebration : Gov. Obiano attends event, launches three youth empowerment schemes.
By Chidiebele Obika.
The Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano yesterday attended the 2019 International Youth Day celebration which held at the Dr. Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka.
International Youth Day celebration is an annual event set aside by the United Nations in the year 2000 to celebrate all the young persons in the world.
Speaking at the occassion, Governor Willie Obiano said; ” today we celebrate the youths of Anambra State; their resilience, exceptional entrepreneurial spirit, famous innovative spark and enviable creativity”.
Continuing, the Governor said that the Anambra youths are the hope of the state. He reeled out policies and programmes under his administration that has further advanced the course of the youths in the state. He further pointed that about fifty two percent of appointees in his administration are youths.
Gov. Obiano noted that his government has empowered the youths in agriculture with seed money and had trained about 2000 youths through the state’s one youth one skill programme. He used the opportunity to inaugurate the triple – I (Inventor, investor, Initiative ) designed to identify creative and innovative ideas, train and empower them, Youth Tv. channels and smart jobs.
Concluding his speech, the Governor informed the audience that his administration has concluded plans to build a mini stadium in all the 172 communities in the state and had set aside, five million Naira per community for the facilities.
Earlier in his address, the Honourable Commissioner for Youth Entrepreneurship and Creative Economy, Hon. Afam Mbanefo observed that through the state’s youth in Agriculture project, about 33000 youths have been trained in the agricultural value chain and empowered amongst other wonderful programmes of the Ministry.
Hon. Mbanefo used the opportunity to appreciate Gov. Obiano for all his supports to the Anambra youths.
On his part, the state Chairman of the National Youth Council of Nigeria who spoke on behalf of other youth bodies in the state, Comr. Samuel Egwuatu appreciated the Governor for integrating the youths into the mainstream of governance in his administration.
He pointed that Anambra State government is the best youth friendly administration in Nigeria and has through several ways empowered the youths of the state.
Highlights of the occassion included; the decoration of Gov. Willie Obiano as the grand patron of the Anambra state youth council, presentation of laptops and other gifts by the Governor to deserving youth corps members who have distinguished themselves during their service year in the state.
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