Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has inaugurated the N1.5 billion youths and women empowerment programme tagged: “Kaura Economic Empowerment Programme (KEEP).”
Mohammed disclosed this at the official flag-off of the empowerment programme on Saturday in Zaki Local Government Area of the state.
He said he decided to use the Democracy Day celebration, which is a special day in Nigeria, to kick-start the distribution of the economic strengthening items in the state.
The governor said the KEEP scheme was an initiative of the state government designed to empower youths and women.
He said that motorcycles and other economic strengthening items worth N75 million were provided for distribution to youths and women in Zaki.
The items included three cars, 54 motorcycles, several sewing and grinding machines.
Mohammed explained that the gesture would be replicated in other 19 local government areas of the state, adding that this was in fulfillment of his campaign promises.
Mohammed urged the beneficiaries to ensure effective utilisation of the items to engage in productive activities to enable them to become employers of labour.
In a remark, Hajiya Aisha Mohammed, the wife of the governor, said that the empowerment programme would help women to be self-reliant.
She added that the gesture would also afford mothers to enrol their children in schools as they now have businesses of their own.
