One hundred and seventy seven Youths from Anambra communities resident in Abuja are to benefit from the Liaison Officer’s skill acquisition programme.
The Anambra Liaison Officer in Abuja, Mrs. Agatha Manafa who stated this at the familiarization tour of all communities in the Capital City, said that the youths will be selected from all the communities of the state.
The visit which was to get first hand information on the plight of the citizens was also an opportunity for the laison officer to interact with her constituents.
Her first port of call was on Ajalli community where she said that she came to know their problems and laise with them on the way forward, reminding them that the laison office is there to service the people of the state.
Mrs Manafa told the people, to select a vibrant youth for the skill acquisition programme who will in turn teach whatever he or she learnt at the end of the programme to other members of the community.
According to her, the programme is a means of giving back to the society that made her.
Addressing the people, the ABS Abuja bureau Ch’ief, Ekwi Ajide said that the Anambra Broadcasting Service was in Abuja to give them voice and opportunity to showcase their community as a group and their companies and professions as individuals.
She stressed that since the ABS streams live, it will be a great opportunity to showcase their culture to the outside world for a token unlike other Frontline media that will charge them huge sums of money for little time to showcase them.
Speaking through it’s Chairman, Chief Charles Nwajagu, Ajalli community in Abuja, lamented that their community is the only one that can boast of five first class graduates but is yet to receive the one million naira and automatic job promised graduates who make first class by the state government.
The Abuja Laison Officer and her entourage later visited Nawfia and Nise communities.
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