Food security: PDP Odii gives community N150m empowerment for agric
By Amarachi Ehia, Abakaliki
The 2023 Governorship Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ebonyi State, Chief Chukwuma Odii has empowered Isuachara community in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State with One Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (150,000,000.00) to boost food production.
Odii announced the empowerment in the community during the Grand Reception in his honour.
He said he would select three beneficiaries each from five ‘kindred’ that make up the community for modern agric businesses and promised to give N3million each to 15 of them after training.
He also supported the community N300 Million Naira Town Hall projects with Twenty Million Naira (20,000,000) promising to give more if the money was judiciously utilized.
“Our community is known for its rich production of rice, yam, Cassava and vegetable foods, and that made our community people agrarian and that is why I am supporting them”.
The agricultural empowerment will involve three persons each from the five ‘kindred’, making 15 beneficiaries.
“The beneficiaries will go into training in modern farming and after which, I will give them N3 million each to start up agricultural business,” he said.
Odii, who bagged a Chieftaincy title, “Omeziriobodo 1 of Isuachara alongside other six illustrious sons of the community said the agricultural empowerment would be rotating among the people annually.
Emmanuel Ogudu, National Chairman of Isuachara Development Union said the grand reception and the Chieftaincy award were for the appreciation of Odii for his meritorious service to mankind.
Ogudu, who commended Odii said the annual occasion would pave way for more unified people of Isuachara, urging Odii to keep the flag flying.
Also speaking, the Chairman of occasion, Prof Ogbonna Ogbu, who is also one of the Chieftaincy awardees expressed gratitude for the 2025 celebration of Isuachara day.
The 2023 Governorship Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ebonyi State, Chief Chukwuma Odii has empowered Isuachara community in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State with One Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (150,000,000.00) to boost food production.
Odii announced the empowerment in the community during the Grand Reception in his honour.
He said he would select three beneficiaries each from five kinds that made up the community for modern agric businesses and promised to give N3million each to 15 of them after training.
He also supported the community’s N300 Million Naira Town Hall projects within Twenty Million Naira (20,000,000) promising to give more if the money was judiciously utilized.
