Covid 19 grants: Deltans hail Okowa over Delta Cares Initiative
(Nigeria) Deltans at the Ughelli enumeration centre for the COVID-19
Grants have hailed the Delta State governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa and the
Delta Care Initiative for the proposed grants that due to be released to
beneficiaries anytime soon.
Some of the beneficiaries who were at the Ughelli
enumeration centre to be captured for payment yesterday, and spoke to our
correspondent. expressed joy that something good was about to happen in their
lives.
One of them, Mr Augustine Ebisidor from Patani Local Government
Area of the state, who is into computer hardware repair, said that the COVID-19
affected his business negatively but with the grants, he was sure of bringing
back his business to a new dimension.
A cross section of beneficiaries at the Ughelli Enumeration
Centre
Mr Ebisidor said that government should extend the grants to
the youths at the grassroots to serve as encouragement to them.
Godspower Orugbo, another beneficiary, from Burutu Local
Government Area, on his part, said that the COVID-19 pandemic wrecked havoc on
his fish farm to the extent that he was almost forced out of the business.
"My business suffered during the Covid 19 pandemic.
Because of the lockdown, customers could not access my business. There was no
patronage at that time.
"I really appreciate governor Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa
for the Delta Care Initiative for we to bring up our business again," he
emphasized.
Mr Orugbo said that he was excited when he learnt of the
grants and expressed joy that his dream was coming back to life.
He said that with the grants, he would expound his fish farm
and employ more workers, just as he added that the program would help to reduce
youth restiveness and criminality in the state.
For Mrs Joan Ighoro, from Effurun in Uvwie Local Government
Area, it was like a dream, saying that she never expected that her business
would spring up again after the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to her, she lost almost all the money she invested
into the foodstuff business, adding that she could not supply her customers
because of the lockdown.
Mrs Ighoro, who disclosed that she got the information
through a friend, said she would use the grants to enlarge her business and
appealed to the government to make sure that the program went round to help
reduce the poverty level in the state.
A farmer, Mr Asaba Abraham, from Isoko South, also commended
the state government but suggested that government at all levels should make
funds available to farmers where they could borrow to improve on their farming
at all times.
The capturing of enrollees for the grants would be rounded
off today at the Kwale Enumeration Center.
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