BODA Youth Agricultural Club soon to go operational



An agricultural club for youths of the Bobong Development Association, BODA, aimed at empowering them on animal and vegetable production will soon kick off. The information was disclosed by Dr. Akem Christopher, project manager at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Ibadan, Nigeria and initiator of the club during a meeting with youths at BODA hall on Monday 29th December 2014. He told youths in Bobong that until they learned to be productive through self-employment activities particularly in the area of agriculture, development will be difficult to come by.
Dr Akem Christopher said the time when almost every youth depended on government for employment is long past, regretting that many youths who are graduates still roam the streets today with the excuse that there are no jobs whereas there are many unexploited potentials in the agricultural sector that could help them earn a living. He used the forum to announce that he was putting in 1MFCFA to fund poultry, piggery, fishery, goat and vegetable production for at least ten youths in Bobong.
The project which he said is loan free and may subsequently become  a grant is targeting youths between the ages of 18-35 who must have basic literacy skills and have land to carry out the said activities.
It should be noted that the project to fund animal and vegetable production for youths in Bobong is not the first action of Dr Akem Christopher, given that in 2014 through the Peter Valentine Akem Foundation Vocational Scholarship Scheme to remember his late father whom he said was instrumental in the education of underprivileged children, opted to sponsor 12 Bobong youths in various vocational trades including carpentry, building, motor mechanics, computer studies, tailoring and hair dressing. This initiative costed some 1.2MFCFA.
Dr Akem Christopher qualifies youth unemployment as a time bomb which could explode at any moment if care is not taken. He attributes the rising crime wave today, other ills like drug abuse and prostitution to the fact that many youths are jobless and the only next thing they can do is to indulge themselves in unlawful activities. He encouraged the youths to seek for avenues that could be profitable to them.
Presently occupying the post of project manager at IITA Ibadan, Nigeria Dr Akem Christopher who hails from Bobong in Njinikom subdivision is holder of a Bsc in Agriculture, Msc in plant pathology and Phd in plant pathology.

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