Gov. Theodore Orji of Abia said on Friday in Umuahia that his government was focusing on youth empowerment to use the enormous potential in them for development.
“These people you see here (youths), if you toy with them, you are toying with yourself because they will show you pepper, but if you galvanise and use them effectively, they will show that they have energy that is positive,” he said.
Orji made the remarks when he presented a bus each to Abia chapter of National Youths Council of Nigeria (NYCN) and the Students? Union Government of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, on Friday in Umuahia.
The governor, who made the presentation separately, added that the government was pleased with the exemplary conducts of the students of Abia Polytechnic.
The governor, who said the bus would enable the students to attend the programmes organised by other students? groups, urged them to continue to support government policies and programmes.
In his speech, Chief Mba Ukariwo, the Chairman, Governing Council of Abia Polytechnic, thanked the governor for the gesture and assured him that the school would continue to support government’s programmes.
Ukariwo said the management of the institution had tackled the problem of cultism, adding that staff and students now work in harmony.
Also speaking, Mr Chidebere Kanu, the state chairman of NYCN, said since the inauguration of the council by an Act of Parliament in 1964, Orgi’s government was the first to accommodate the group.
Kanu thanked the governor for his youth empowerment scheme, especially the recent presentation of more than 200 vehicles to the youths and assured that they would make good use of the vehicles.
