By Abah Joshua
The Federal House of Representatives member, Kama Nkemkanma Representing Ohaozara/Onicha/Ivo Federal Constituency of Ebonyi State said he has empowered about 400 rural women farmers for the farming season from his constituency.
He disclosed this on Friday during an interactive session with students and teachers who participated in a holiday lesson he organised for his constituents tagged “Hon. Kama Holiday Lesson”
The lawmaker said the empowerment of the rural women farmers was part of his effort to reduce food insecurity and hunger in the land.
According to him, 40 women farmers from each community that made up his constituency benefited from the farm inputs he distributed.
The lawmaker also distributed bags of fertilizer to farmers in his constituency as part of his contribution to agricultural development in the school and beyond.
“In Agriculture, we did empowered 400 women before farming season, 40 women farmers per community. We gave them farm inputs to plant, and we will continue to do more”.
Kama said his aim was to take the students out of streets for the long vacation and that over 500 students participated in the lesson program out of whichever three students who performed exptionaly well were offered automatic scholarship to university level to encourage others study hard.
He also said he would introduce skill training into the holiday lesson as the program will be running annually.
“Education is the bed rock, foundation of success without Education we have not started. So when you are prepared with your certificate, you wait for an opportunity to come that is why to the best of my ability, I want every OHANIVO child to be educated.
“So the whole idea of holiday lesson is to keep them out of the streets in the holiday. Keep their memories growing. It is going to be yearly by God’s grace. It is not one-off thing just to make sure our children is in a confined space to learn better.
“We are trying to inculcate some other things like skills because these days you can see people doing different things to earn a living, such as carpentry, vulcanizer, barbar, fashion designer. So, we want to see how we can introduce it to schools and see how we can make practicals than theory in our schools”, he stated.