The founder, Gbagyi Enlightenment Initiative (GEI), Sarah Shekwany Tukurah, has appealed for government’s assistance to enable it to continue to provide entrepreneurial training for Gbagyi youths in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and other parts of the North-central.
He further called on the entire Gbagyi community to unite in fighting for the welfare of their people wherever they may reside in spite of their religious differences.
Tukurah, who made the call in Abuja at the 2015 National Gbagyi summit held recently in Abuja, described Gbagyi aborigines as peace-loving people; while she called on well-meaning Nigerians to support the initiative to achieve its laudable projects on the ground.
A guest speaker at the occasion, Barrister George Koce, pointed out that there was the need for government of the day to give special consideration to the Gbagyi people in the FCT.
He also pleaded with the government to place the FCT indigenes in the quarter system, in the area of admissions into universities, especially those within the north central zone.
He urged the government to provide job opportunities for the FCT indigenes that form part of teeming unemployed community in the federal capital territory.
Koce, however, advised Gbagyi youth to live up to the society’s expectations as leaders of tomorrow, by engaging themselves in meaningful ventures.
In his remarks, an entrepreneur expert, Mr. Sunday Azaki Katiwoyi, said Gbagyi Enlightenment Initiative is a platform where the Gbagyi as well as Gbari come together to further their collective interest, without discriminating against each other.
According to him, GEI objective is geared towards empowering the Gbagyi youth in order to become self-reliant through the entrepreneurial ventures.
Katiwoyi, also tasked the Gbagyi people to be up and doing in any field of their choice and be good ambassadors wherever they live, saying that he would not relent in his effort to contribute towards training Gbagyi youth in skill acquisition programme