EBONYI GOVERNMENT RELEASES N900 MILLION FOR EMPOWERMENT

Otu Obiahu
AJM NEWS
Ebonyi State Government Has Released The Sum Of N900,000,000 (Nine Hundred Million Naira), As Part Of #ENDSARS Empowerment scheme.
The state Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Orji Uchenna Orji made the revelation in Abakaliki while speaking to newsmen on the outcome of the state Executive Meeting and the swearing-in of new Exco members on Thursday.
Commissioner Orji said: “The executive received the final report on the empowerment of youths and women.
“In the proposal, each beneficiary is to receive N300,000. We have approved the final list of 3,000 beneficiaries and further set up a committee to prepare a proposal for the launch of the empowerment programme.
“The executive also released N900 million for empowerment which is a by-product of the #ENDSARS.
“The beneficiaries should go to the office of the deputy governor for final verification and documentation”.
Orji also noted that the list should be forwarded to the office of the Commissioner for Information and State Orientation for publication in at least two national dailies ahead of the disbursement flag-off.
He added that the state government will be unveiling the programme by the first week of August.
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