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By Akpan David, Calabar
The Brotherhood All Youths Assembly (BAYA) has earmarked the sum of N46.9m to train and empower 320 mostly Nigerian youths in five years
BAYA has an training arm called Enterprise Council headed by Hon. Ibinabo Michael West, a Patriarch and Christ Shepherd in Brotherhood of the Cross and Star (BCS), the mother Organization of the group.
Spiritual leader of the BCS, His Holiness Olumba Olumba Obu initiated the BAYA Empowerment Council in order to reorientate the youths from restiveness, crimes, laziness and other evil tendencies towards the part of godliness, contentment and acquisition of skills and wealth.
The sum earmarked by BAYA is to cover 230 youths hoping that it would have multiplier effect of empowering and generating jobs for another 2,150 youths, according to the spokesman of BCS, Christ Shepherd Edet Archibong.
He had briefed journalists in his office about the week-long activities to mark the group’s yearly youths conventions.
He said the empowerments and trainings which has since started with he training and empowerment of 70 youths, will be in agriculture, education, entertainment, broadcasting as well as sports.
“These programmes would be implemented in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 respectively with the hope that it will truly meet and respond closely to provide lifelines for our youths.
“These empowerments and trainings are aimed towards embracing entrepreneurial ventures and business operations. A good chunk of the youths will not only gain entry into a more stable and sustainable source of livelihood but will also glean the golden opportunity to join the league of world bourgeois who control the world economy.”
He said they trained 70 youths from ten states of Nigeria in 2021 in organic farming and beneficiaries received starter parks to enable them put the skills acquired to use.
Archibong said the purpose of he annual BAYA conventions which started in 2021 in Port Harcourt is to inculcate virtuous spirit into the youths in order to discourage them from laziness, crimes and other evil tendencies.
It was learnt that the enterprise council of the BAYA provided other sources for the youths to benefit from funds to rent lands, register cooperative societies as well as extra N100,000 to each.
Secretary of the BAYA Enterprise Council, Mr. Eneawaji Ukoima disclosed further that selection another set of 70 youths for the 2022 empowerment programme, which is Education will kickstart on 19 September 2021.
