Five small business owners awarded N200,000 Naira each
Anambra State born Chief Executive Officer- CEO of Zidora Group, Dr. Arinze Madueke, has supported no fewer than five small business owners with the sum of N200,000 Naira each (two hundred thousand Naira), as grants for their businesses. Earlier during the festive season, Dr. Madueke said that one of the major ways to solve the problem of insecurity in Anambra State permanently and across the Southeast is by well-to-do stakeholders making attempts to help youths put their hands and skills to profitable use. “Nobody who is meaningfully engaged will be a threat to his community,” Dr. Madueke had said
A few days after the festivities of Christmas and New Year, Dr. Arinze Madueke has made good his promise to support at least five young people with grants to help them boost their businesses in his village of Ukpor, in Nnewi South local government area of Anambra State. According to Madueke, this is the first tranche in the series that would subsequently be coordinated by the Zidora Foundation which oversees the charity works of Dr. Arinze Madueke, Zidora Group and other business interests of Dr. Madueke.
The five beneficiaries of the N200,000 grant are home-based small business owners. This is to say that the beneficiaries are living in Ukpor and doing their business in Ukpor. For Madueke, this is critical because the recent insecurity has exposed the dangers of having disempowered, disadvantaged, and weakest people back at home. “We must be deliberate in building a strong home front. People at home must be empowered to grow and build locally. We are all safe and secure if they do well eventually and we know they will. Nobody who is making a good living in any community would support its destruction,” Dr. Madueke said.
In the coming weeks, perhaps, more people from the Southeast might pay attention to individual interventions targeted at the youths to support the local economy, build new wealth creators, and tackle insecurity.
He is a Technical Assistant to Governor Willie Obiano’s Special Adviser on Legislative Matters, whoonce was a Special Adviser to a former Deputy Speaker of Anambra State House of Assembly. Ebuka is a second class upper division graduate of Political Science from University of Calabar, Calabar Nigeria and holds a Masters Degree in Political Science with specialization in Government and Development Studies, from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Nigeria
