Chair of the Public Accounts Committee in the Senate, Senator Matthew Urhoghide (representing Edo South Senatorial Zone) has empowered unemployed youth in his zone with various income-generating equipment.
The equipment included 37 tricycles (keke NAPEP), 333 sewing machines, 186 generating sets, 86 grinding machines and 75 motorcycles.
Senator Urhoghide said: “God will not forgive me if I had pocketed the money meant for the empowerment of the people of my constituency.
“I want all of you to feel that you belong to a family.
“And you know a senator that cares. All these things, if I had wanted to personalize them and put the money in my pocket, all these things you are seeing now you will not see them but God will not forgive me if I do it.
“So if I have made the sacrifice to you, please use it well.
“Particularly to our youth, empowerment is not the millions I give to you. Even if I give you a generator and there is power failure and you take it to your house, you have empowered your family.”
Senator Urhoghide said that he felt the pains of the unemployed and that the government could not tackle the problem alone.
He however said that with the collective effort of everyone, the problem would be solved.
He pointed out: “that is the reason I have to press so hard that such materials are made available to the people of my senatorial zone.”
Urhoghide advised the recipients of the items not to sell them.
He stated that they had no reason to be poor if they “judiciously make use of them to better their lots.”
He appealed to members of the party who had yet to benefit from his empowerment programme to be patient and wait for the next batch
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