Wife of the Akwa Ibom State governor, Mrs Patience Umo Eno, has called on women to embrace entrepreneurship and skills development, disclosing that she was a seamstress before becoming the governor’s wife.
The first lady made the call at the secretariat of Eket local government area during the Eket Senatorial District Women New Year thanksgiving service and empowerment.
“Aside from being a governor’s wife, I am a seamstress, you call it fashion designer now. My father gave me my sewing machine when I got married 33 years ago, and it is still in my workshop,” she recalled.
Mrs Eno lauded the district’s women for the initiative of constructing the Women Development and Skill Acquisition Centre (WDSC), stressing that it will foster the development of women.
In the same vein, the president of the Eket Senatorial District Women Forum (ESDWF), Mrs Idara Ephraim Akpan, thanked Governor Eno and wife, for their love towards women in the state and the senatorial district in particular.
She named some of the achievements of the forum to include empowerment of women of the senatorial district with no fewer than 300 sewing machines, 115 cassava processing machines, 182 grinding machines.
Others include 91 hair dryers, 121 makeover kits, 15 generating sets, 34 computers, business startups, grants, among others.
The chairman of the occasion and commissioner for local government and chieftaincy affairs, Mr Frank Archibong, who assured the governor and his wife of the support of the senatorial district, announced the donation of N10million from prominent sons of the senatorial district for the project.
