In continuation of its Youth Empowerment
Programme, the Abia State Government has
given out 202 different brands of vehicles to
Abia youths for the fourth phase of the
programme.
This brings to 700, the total number of vehicles
so far given out by the government to the
youths since the inception of the programme
about a year ago.
Speaking while handing over the vehicles to
beneficiaries at the Michael Okpara Auditorium,
Umuahia, the Commissioner for Local
Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Chief
Emma Nwabuko explained that the programme
was designed to better the lots of youths in the
state.
Nwabuko also explained that the vehicles
which were branded and registered by the
government were always given free of charge.
According to him, the gesture was not only to
make Abia youths gainfully employed but to be
useful to themselves and the society.
In his remarks, the Special Adviser to the
Governor on Youth Affairs and Development,
Prince Maduka Uwadi asked the beneficiaries
not to use the vehicles for commercial
purposes, resell or deface them, warning that
any person caught going against the guidelines
would have his vehicle withdrawn.
Uwadi announced that the fifth batch of the
exercise would hold before the end of
December.
Meanwhile, two prominent Abia indigenes have
donated 20 vehicles to the scheme. in support
of Abia State Government’s-owned Ochendo
Youths Empowerment Programme headed Mr
Chinedu Orji.
The vehicles were donated by Friday Nwosu,
who gave five Sienna vehicles and Chief Uche
Ogah of Masters Energy, who gave 15 Passat
cars.
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