His Highness Chief Akin Ricketts, the Board Chairman of Nigeria Port Authority (NPA empowered over 300 people with different items.
The empowerment was to drive home economic prosperity amongst young and unemployed people, widows, the disabled and physically challenged persons in the society.
Over 70 motorcycles, 50 Sewing Machines, 100 Solar Powered Streetlights, 20 Wheelchairs for physically challenged persons, 50 Grinding Machines and 5 Welding Machines to beneficiaries across the 13 council wards in Yakurr LGA.
Empowerment is part of Chief Akin Ricketts’s yearly corporate social responsibility and empowerment scheme.
Speaking during the ceremony, the NPA Boss advised Cross Riverians to support and embrace the incoming government as there are a lot of good things this government will provide.
“I have a strong belief that the incoming administration in Cross River State will bring a lot of good things, therefore, the people should not expect less. Senator Prince Bassey Edet Otu is a good man and the father of empowerment in the Southern Senatorial District. He has promised that his administration will run an empowered kind of leadership. I believe too that this will help drive entrepreneurial growth in the State”.
“This empowerment is coming at a time where political campaign has come and gone, and truly reflect the true character of Chief Akin Ricketts who doesn’t want to be seen as empowering people for political campaigns and support,” one of the beneficiaries of a Grinding Machines observed.
Chief Akin has been so generous to Cross Riverians. He has been empowering youths, women, physically challenged persons and the downtrodden in the society.
The event in its second edition is a joint empowerment initiative of Chief Akin Ricketts and the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), which Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Intervention Scheme are designed with the sole aim of bridging the unemployment gap as well as the Federal Governments Self Employment/sustenance Strategy.
Beneficiaries were full of praises and prayers for Chief Akin Ricketts.
