The recent training of more than one hundred and eighty youths and
women of Okobo local government area on various skill acquisition
programmes by the Executive Chairman of the area Princess Felicia Bassey has
attracted positive commendations from beneficiaries of the programme and well
meaning sons and daughters of the area.
Speaking
with our reporter, one of the beneficiaries of the programme, Mrs. Joseph
Gregory Ukoh noted that while representatives and other clueless leaders are
building their wealth and glory on the suffering of the masses, the chairman of
Okobo Local Government Council is busy pursuing vigorously the welfare of her
people to turn around their economic woes and lay a solid foundation for the
future.
The
visibly elated beneficiary who disclosed that the scheme has made her
self-employed and created a sense of belonging in the present administration,
called on other elected and appointed political office holders within the area
to borrow a leaf from the council chairman by floating programmes that would
touch the lives of the rural dwellers positively.
Another
beneficiary of the programme Effiong Odiong Aman remarked that the beauty of
participatory democracy is the ability to touch lives directly and also provide
a strategy to discover collective problems of the people and proffer solutions
to them. He described Princess Felicia Bassey as an administrator with a milk
of human kindness, noting that her kind even after the end of their stay in
office, are always encouraged to carry on the banner of selfless services and
effective representation, in view of their antecedents and breath-taking
achievements while in office.
He
added that posterity will not forgive any leader who mortgages the future of
the governed on the altar of self-aggrandizement.
Mr.
Amah noted that apart from the programme creating jobs for himself and other
beneficiaries, it will drastically reduce the number of unemployed youths and
take their minds away from crime, violence, restiveness and other social vices
capable of truncating the relative peace in the area.
In
their separate comments Mr. Emmanuel Effiong Ebenyi, Samuel Cornelius Esio,
Rose Bassey Ayah, Nyong Etim Otuong and Sylvia Ibanga Walter lauded the effort
of the Okobo Council Chairman in providing succour to the less privileged
persons in the area and for making herself accessible for the governor.
The
beneficiaries also described Princess Felicia Bassey as a politician with
unquestionable democratic credentials and one who is following the footsteps of
the state Governor Chief Godswill Akpabio in the area of governance and human
development.
The
particularly commended the effort of the chairman in repositioning the council
through execution of life touching projects and programmes, praying God to
endow her with more wisdom, good health and divine direction.
The
youths and women were trained in various programmes such as ICT,
welding/fabrication, photography, soap making, sewing among others.
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