By Obiorah Anthony
Anambra State Director of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Barrister Charles Nworji, has stressed the importance of Skill acquisition to individuals and national development.
Barr. Nworji made the assertion while receiving members of a non-political organization known as,”Mmaigbo Empowerment Foundation,” who paid him a courtesy call in his office in Awka.
The State NOA boss, expressed delight at the visit, pointing out that the mandates of the group were in tandem with that of NOA’s working schedules.
He praised the leadership of the foundation for not only promoting the Igbo language and culture but also highlighting the economic aspects of the Igbo nation.
Barr. Nworji further noted that the foundation is not only highlighting challenges facing Ndigbo as a people but also proffering solutions through their entrepreneurial training of Igbo youths aimed at dissuading them from drug abuse and other vices.
He stated that the group might have drawn its inspiration from the entrepreneurial spirits of Ndigbo known as ‘Igba boyi’ and advised them to work towards making their vision and mission known to the government through partnership so that our people will benefit more from their activities.
Speaking, the Director, Planning and Strategy of the foundation, Mr. Nganwuchu Chika, said that the foundation had through its fourteen days training workshop, re-oriented the youths both spiritually and physically.
He promised that the foundation would empower the trainees by providing them with working equipment on the 25th of June, 2022.
He equally disclosed that the foundation was also working round the clock to ascertain how much it would cost them to secure shops for the beneficiaries, adding that they are recycling the trainees so that they would in turn train others with a view to providing jobs to the teeming unemployed youths in the Igbo nation.
He emphasised that the scope of the people the foundation wants to empower was every Igbo-speaking youth to make them become self-reliant.
In their separate speeches, the Director of Language and Communication of the group, Mr. Nkechi Okoye, and the Secretary, Mr Kenneth Umeh, affirmed that the beauty of the Igbo nation was that they are very hard working and industrious anywhere they found themselves.
They pointed out that the programme’s thrust of the foundation was anchored on what they described as “Development Communication”, through grassroots sensitization programmes of the group and total war against get-rich-quick syndrome with its negative implications on the youths in the Igbo nation and others elsewhere across the country.
