House Member Empowers Over 1000 Youths in Anaocha L.G.A

The member of Anambra state House of Assembly representing Anaocha constituency 2 has commenced the training of over 1000 youths drawn from all the communities in Anaocha local government area. The Honorable member disclosed that the training which is focused on fish farming and sports was initiated to empower the youths of the council area.

Hon Ezeani while commending the youths for coming out en masse to embrace the empowerment initiative, revealed that the training will go along way in curbing the rate at which young people rum the streets of the area. He noted that the program would not end at just training but also practical guidance and education through the process of cultivating fish from fingerlings to harvestable size.

Expressing his readiness to collaborate with the youths in a bid to liberate them from a life of dependency, the house member disclosed that the program will run for a period of 3 years in other to fully equip and train the participants.

His words “the program is an economic empowerment and agricultural production scheme which is geared towards training and empowering over 1000 youths which cuts across the entire towns in Anaocha local government area. We have employed the services of professionals who will put them through this program”

“We have also moved to acquire a massive land for this and our intention is to create what we call clusters, this clusters will be done in such a way that all the towns in Anaocha will have their respective ponds and in that pond they will kick start from scratch till the point of production this will run for a period of 3 years for them to be fully informed about what fish farming is all about.”

He commended the efforts of the state government in providing feed meal for fish farmers even as he encouraged the government to embark on proper training and retraining of farmers in other to keep them abreast with the revolving nature of the farming profession.

He said “People have problems and challenges in agriculture because they have not undergone any form of training in the area they are facing. The truth of the matter is if you want to succeed in anything that has to do with agriculture production you must have to go through serious training and retraining”