By Nahum Sule (Taraba State Correspondent, in Jalingo)
A Member Representing Pero Chonge State Constituency in Gombe state, Hon. Samuel Markus Wina, has sponsored the training of youths in his Constituency in different skills acquisitions such as woodwork, Welding and building construction.
The lawmaker while presenting the certificates of completion to the beneficiaries at the presentation of his mid-term report and town hall meeting in Filiya, Shongom local government area in Gombe state, also presented cash donations to sixty selected business owners in the Constituency to boost their businesses.
He said the gesture was aimed at empowering the people of the Constituency and providing a platform to carry the Constituents along in the democratic process through town hall meetings to get a first-hand report on the needs of the people.
He said "The APC-led administration is trying to leave no stone unturned in its development efforts to improve the lives of the citizens from the state of underdevelopment, high rate of unemployment, poverty and lack of social amenities in all the wards of the Constituency.
"In our campaign promises we highlighted four sectors to focus on and these were the Education sector, Agriculture sector, health sector, and the Social sector and these promises have served as the fulcrum of our campaigns across the six-wards of the Pero Chonge Constituency".
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He thanked the people of Pero Chonge Constituency for giving him the opportunity to represent them at the State Assembly, hence the need for continuous Community engagement to evaluate efforts made in improving the living conditions of his Constituents.
"Under my leadership, we have been able to create job opportunities for our unemployed graduates in different programs, parastatals, Agencies, N-Power enrollment, renovation and drilling of boreholes, scholarship and many other human capacity development programs across the six-wards of the Constituency.
"The provision of skill acquisitions training for our youths as well as a scholarship to different levels of Educational pursuit within and outside the country, has been the hallmark of our achievements", he said.
On his part, the District Head of Gwandum, one of the wards in Pero Chonge Constituency, Mr. Yahaya Haruna, thanked the legislator for Empowering the youths and business owners in the Constituency, noting that such initiatives could spur the people to entrust more leadership positions on the legislator.
He called on the beneficiaries to take the advantage of the skills they have acquired to develop themselves and the community at large. NNL.
