BENIN CITY – Edo State Government yesterday demonstrated its resolve to eradicate poverty to the barest minimum in the state by distributing in come generating equipment worth over N2.2 million to less privileged indigenes of Egor local government with a passionate appeal to the recipients to ensure that the equipment are appropriately utilized to improve their standard of living.
The Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Bright Omokhodion who represented the state Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole at the presentation ceremony of the income generating equipment which were procured by the Egor Local Government Chairman, Hon. Crosby Eribo commended the initiative of the Local Government Council.
He said the state government at this stage of development deemed it fit through the Director of Poverty Alleviation, Chief (Mrs.) Evelyn Igbafe to provide income-generating equipment for the less previledged indigenes of the state.
He commended the Egor Local government Council and the Director of Poverty Alleviation for reaching out to the less priviledged people who really need assistance from government.
According to him, the beneficiaries who are chosen from each of the wards in Egor should not misuse this opportunity and should protect the equipment jealously by putting them to productive use.
“Let them generate means of livelihood for you and thereby society will not see you as parasites,” he noted.
The Chairman of Egor Local Government, Hon. Crosby Eribo who made the donations to the less previledged through the office of the Director of Poverty Alleviation programme disclosed that the initiative was the first of its kind in the state.
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