Sokoto Lawmaker, Gorau, Empowers Constituents, People With Disability

In his continued determination to bring dividends of democracy to his constituents, the member representing Gada/Goronyo Federal Constituency in Sokoto, Bashir Usman Gorau, has once again empowered over 500 people, including those with special needs.

The empowerment initiative, carried out in collaboration with the Directorate of National Employment, involved training some beneficiaries in life skills and provided a grant of 30,000 to 500 people.

The beneficiaries include 50 People with Disabilities, 250 boys, and 200 girls, drawn from the two local governments of Gada and Goronoro in Sokoto State.

The gesture tagged, “Skills Acquisition for NANO Businesses For People With Special Needs (Disabled) in the two local governments brought visible joy to the beneficiaries, as most of them recalled with gladness how the Federal Lawmaker, Garau, has been helping them in several ways.

NANO businesses are those types of enterprises that are characterised by a small number of employees, hence requiring little funding to commence.

Giving testimony of how they have been enjoying dividends of democracy courtesy of Honourable Garau, one of the beneficiaries, a middle aged Person With Disability (PWD), Umaru Hassan listed several of the Lawmakers human capital development programmes to include, provision of agricultural inputs, cash, motorcycles, tricycles, water pumping machines, to youth and women empowerment to payment of tuition fees for Nursing as well as those of undergraduate and postgraduate students in the various higher institutions that indigenes of Gada and Goronyo local government areas.

Commenting on the development, the Sokoto acting State Coordinator of NDE, Malam Lukman Abubakar, said it’s a welcome development, even as he charges influential people and political office holders to partner with NDE towards creating and sustaining a self-reliant society.