By Ifeoma Aka
Enugu – Mr Innocent Ugwu, the member representing Igbo Eze North II in Enugu State House of Assembly, has promised to attract foreign investors to the State.
Ugwu, who is also the Chairman, Assembly Committee on Commerce and Industry, made the promise in Enugu on Tuesday during the inauguration of his committee by the Speaker of the Assembly, Chief Edward Ubosi.
The chairmanpledged to attract both local and foreign investors willing to do business in the state.
He said the investors would help to create job opportunities for the residents of the state.
The committee’s chairman urged youths to acquire skills to make themselves relevant in the society.
While inaugurating the committees on Commerce and Industry and Committee on Economic Development, Poverty Reduction, MDGs and NGOs, the Speaker charged the members to work toward empowering youths in the state.
Ubosi said empowering youths through job creation would help to reduce poverty and criminal activities.
The Speaker asked the committees to partner with relevant bodies, especially non-governmental organisations that had interest in empowering individuals to become self-reliant.
He also asked the committee chairman on SDGs to monitor SDG projects to ensure that they impacted positively on the lives of the beneficiaries.
Ubosi said that the state government would continue to initiate policies and programmes geared towards reducing poverty in Enugu State.
Contributing, the committee Chairman on Economic Development, Poverty Reduction, MDGs and NGOs, Mr Johnson Chukwuobasi, promised to follow up the activities of ministries and agencies to ensure they worked in line with the poverty reduction agenda of Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.
While assuring the Speaker of their readiness to carry out the assignment given to them, Chukwuobasi, the member representing Awgu South Constituency, said he would embark on oversight function to determine better ways of empowering youths.
He also promised to do everything possible to ensure that poverty was reduced to the barest minimum through carrying thorough oversight duty.
(NAN)