About Five hundred Women farmers and petty traders have benefited from an empowerment program organized by the APC National Women Leader in Collaboration with the Zamfara State Government
The APC National Women leader Dr. Betta Esu announced this in Maradun local government area of the state while flagging off the distribution exercise.
Dr. Betta Edu said the decision to embark on the empowerment was to support women in order to become self-reliant in view of vulnerability and their positive contributions to democracy and nation-building.
She explained that the program aimed at encouraging farming activities towards eradicating Poverty, especially among women in every part of the country noted that, the gesture was part of the human nature of the APC at the national level.
The National Women Leader also said that four hundred of the Beneficiaries were to receive twenty thousand naira each while the other one hundred would receive one hundred thousand naira each.
According to her, the Headquarters of the party is fully aware of Governor Bello Matawalle’s twenty thousand naira monthly cash support to women among other smiles-driven policies and programs through the office of the State First Lady.
She Commended Governor Bello Matawalle for executing a number of developmental projects while calling on him to do more especially in the areas of women’s development.
In a remark, Governor Bello Matawalle emphasized that the decision by the APC National Women leader to assist women farmers and petty traders was encouraging, supportive, and a clear indication that the present leadership of the party’s women wing is keen to the plight of it’s members
The Governor also assured the National leadership of the party that Zamfara State was for APC and would do everything to ensure the party’s victory during the forthcoming Election at all levels
COV/ SANI HARUNA DUTSINMA