DISTRIBUTION of empowerment packages to qualified persons trained in various skills at Anambra State Vocational Centres will commence after the tours to 21 Local Government Areas, LGAs.

Ebelechukwu Obiano, wife of Anambra State governor, announced this at Nteje during her empowerment tour/August visit to Oyi LGA.

“Traditional rulers and their wives should collect names of those to be trained from their communities for the next batch.

“Our vocational centres are open for all and are committed toward training more unemployed persons to be independent entrepreneurs.

“No employed person visits beer parlours early in the morning,” Obiano said.

She announced that Anambra was placed first in healthcare campaign for children and mothers, noting that there had been a decrease in maternal mortality rate in the state.

Osodieme as Obiano fondly known, encouraged pregnant women to make use of the antenatal and post natal facilities at the hospitals, and ensure their children, aged from 0-5 would be vaccinated to prevent sight and hearing defects.

She thanked the people of Oyi for their overwhelming reception and for re-electing Governor Willie Obiano, her husband a second term.

Uchenna Okafor, commissioner for transport, applauded Obiano for her humanitarian activities, such as building homes for widows and the indigent, toilets in markets as well as providing artificial limbs to the disabled.

Ndidi Mezue, commissioner for Women and Children Affairs, noted that Obiano built not less than 31 homes for the indigent in various parts of the state.

Earlier, Nnamdi Nwadiogbu, Transition Committee chairman, Oyi LGA, thanked the governor’s wife for the visit.

The event also featured the planting of the millennium trees, distribution of bags of rice, wrappers, school bags and cash to the indigent women, widows and children.

Those in her entourage include, Chinwe Nwaebili, former Speaker, Anambra State House of Assembly, Ifeanyi Ibezim, chairman, ANSACA, Nikky Ugochukwu, member representing Orumba South LG.

– Aug. 17, 2018 @ 18:45 GMT |