Youths of Oshimili South local government area have been charged to key into the policies and programmes of the Delta State Government targeted at making them more relevant to themselves and the society.
The State Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Dr Darlington Ijeh, gave the charge today during a courtesy visit to him by a delegation of the Asaba Community Youth Council (ACYC).
Dr Ijeh said the youth development programmes of government were for all Deltans in that category, but reminded community youth associations that they needed to liaise with the appropriate authorities for their members to be able to benefit.
He explained that such programmes were not for the associations to oversee, stressing the need for them to understand the way things work to avoid misconceptions and the attendant feeling of exclusion.
The Commissioner, who holds the title ‘Ideh of Okwe’, in Oshimili South local government area, thanked the Asaba Community Youth Council (ACYC) for the visit and urged the group to continue to ensure high moral values for Asaba youths and non indigenes alike in the overall interest of the community.
Dr Ijeh said though he was there to serve all Deltans, he would devote extra efforts to issues affecting his immediate Constituency and assured youths of Oshimili South that they would not be left behind by the Oborevwori administration.
Earlier, the President of ACYC, Ogbueshi Obodo Okediachi, said the visit was to congratulate one of their own on his well deserved appointment as Commissioner after serving in the same capacity in the immediate past administration in the state.
Ogbueshi Okediachi told the Commissioner that the group was always not carried along in youth related activities of the state government and urged him to wade into the matter in the interest of inclusivity and sense of belonging.
For his part, the Vice President of the group, Dr Victor Amuwah, said beyond the issue of inclusivity, the current ACYC executive had in the past three years remained committed to delivering on its mandate, especially in the area of environmental sanitation, pointing out that different Committees were in place for critical aspects of life in the cosmopolitan city of Asaba, the state capital.
He solicited Dr ijeh’s support for the group’s ongoing projects, especially the Anti-Drug Intersection Monument at Umuezei village, Asaba.
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