Rep gives N100m business grants to 1,000 women, youths in Kaduna

National Assembly lawmaker successful the House of Representatives, representing Kachia/Kagarko Federal Constituency of Kaduna State, Gabriel Saleh Zock, has provided the sum of N100 cardinal to empower 1,000 women and youths successful his constituency arsenic a concern grant.

Nine 100 of the women and youths, who were selected from the 22 wards that marque up the Federal Constituency, received the sum of N50,000 each, portion astir 100 others with outstanding concern proposals were fixed betwixt N300,000 to N7,000,000.

Zock, who carried retired the constituency empowerment programme successful collaboration with the National Productivity Centre, said connected Saturday that the motion was aimed astatine empowering the women and youths to commencement oregon uplift their businesses truthful that they tin beryllium financially independent.

Addressing the beneficiaries successful Kachia, the lawmaker urged them to utilise the money judiciously truthful that they tin go financially autarkic and besides assistance others.

“This empowerment assistance is successful effect to the economical concern of the country. We are alert of the challenges of the masses. So, this empowerment is to amusement that we are with the masses by lifting our constituents, to assistance them commencement up businesses and for farmers to get workplace inputs, which volition assistance them to get a amended living.

“As a mode of ensuring judicious usage of the fund, we person collaborated with a microfinance slope which volition disburse the money and show it. We are besides assured due to the fact that each beneficiary has proven to america beyond tenable uncertainty what they volition bash with the money.

“We person also, done the microfinance bank, trained the beneficiaries connected concern management. We are going to show their concern show done the microfinance bank.

“Our program is not to empower radical to usage the wealth to feed; we are empowering them to go employers of labour, truthful that successful the nearest future, they tin besides empower different people. In that way, we volition person a amended constituency,” helium said.

Meanwhile, speaking astatine the event, Deputy Speaker, Kaduna State House of Assembly, Hon. Henry Danjuma, said the empowerment volition spell a agelong mode successful alleviating poorness successful the constituency.

While commending the House of Representatives Member for the gesture, the Deputy Speaker advised the beneficiaries to guarantee judicious usage of the fund.

One of the beneficiaries, Samuel Umar, expressed appreciation to Zock for the gesture, saying that helium would usage the money to bargain workplace inputs to boost yields of his ginger and maize farm.