By Bisola Adeyemo
Executive Chairman of Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Princess Nkechinyere Iyioku has flagged off the Federal Government’s National Directorate of Employment (NDE) Special Public Work Programme on empowering the workforce dedicated to environmental/ sanitation and cleanliness of the council areas at the council’s headquarters, Obiozara.
While presenting her flagging off speech, Iyioku, who is also Chairman Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Ebonyi state admonished the participants to take the opportunity seriously and do the work with their heart to earn the trust reposed on them and charged their supervisors to supervise the work very well throughout the programme.
According to her, the programme is meant to last for three (3) months across the 774 LGAs across the country, daily times gathered
The NDE participants were presented with sanitation cum cleaning tools such as brooms, cutlasses, shovels, rakes and other working tools.