Group Commends Foundation For Touching Lives

A socio-political association, Igbo Union Nzuko Ndi Igbo, has commended the chief executive officer (CEO) of Primewest Estate and the president of the Prince Jeff Ukachukwu Foundation, Prince Jeff Ukachukwu (Okenwa N’ Omuma), for his multimillion-naira youth and women empowerment programme to the people of Orlu and its environs. Orlu is in Imo State.

A press statement by the convener of Igbo Union Nzuko Ndi Igbo, Prince Elias Odoemena, and made available to journalists in Abuja on Monday, highlighted how Prince Ukachukwu began his philanthropic journey many years ago with the paying of school fees, buying of books and school uniforms for the less privileged children in Orlu, Imo State, including empowerment of indigent youths and women in the society with millions of naira.

While thanking Prince Ukachukwu for his humanitarian gestures to the downtrodden in the society, and being a source of inspiration to the youths and the less privileged in the society, Prince Odoemena called on other rich Nigerians to emulate Prince Jeff Ukachukwu by toying the path of philanthropy as a means of lifting poor Nigerians out of poverty, adding that “children you give scholarship and help today may not easily join a bad gang tomorrow, rather would turn out to be doctors, lawyers and engineers tomorrow.”

Odoemena added that the women Prince Ukachukwu is empowering will be able to help themselves meet their immediate financial needs, contribute to the growth of their children, and assist their husbands in solving many of their family’s economic problems in the future.

Prince Odoemena, in thanking Prince Ukachukwu for giving back to society through many humanitarian interventions and being a good source of inspiration to many in society, noted that such interventions, as shown by Ukachukwu, are what is needed in today’s Nigeria, where economic hardship is driving many households to destitution.