State legislatures urged to pass ‘Not too Young to run Bill’

How did you start this initiative?

I have a business since 2009 and I began to see the need to help other less privileged in the society especially the youth to pick up their lives. That was how the Nwuado Foundation started. It was registered in 2013 and we started going to orphanage homes as it focuses on widows, youth and orphans. Through it, 10 widows got houses in Gboko and in Okija, Anambra state. We also renovated some orphanage homes including the NKST Orphanage Home, Mkar Gboko. Nwuado Foundation has gone into farming because President Muhammadu Buhari has encouraged Nigerians to go into agriculture.

When did you football club? start the

In August of 2013, we established a football club called Nwuado Football Club. It has sponsored 18 players outside the country. As part of the initiative, I donated N5 million split into N5,000 each for 5,000 youth. The beneficiaries include 3,000 Facebook friends, 1,000 from Twitter friends and another 1,000 from the friends around here.

We should unite as one so The Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan has called on State Houses of Assembly to urgently pass the ‘Not too Young to run Bill’ to involve more youth in governance.

Lawan who made the call at a meeting of the Northern Forum of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) in Abuja also advised the Council to facilitate a bill to give it a legal backing.

He explained that the youth governance bill was passed to ensure that youth were responsible and contribute meaningfully towards nation building.

He also emphasised the need for sustained unity of the country, stressing that it was only in the atmosphere of peace that development could thrive.

The Chairman of the Forum, Comrade Emmanuel Dashe said the aim of the meeting was to deliberate on ways young people from the North could contribute to nation building.

A former President of NYCN, Comrade Ben Duntoye urged youth to reduce the dwell time on social media and leverage on the youth governance bill to grow politically.

The Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Council, Dr. Dickson Akoh appealed to the National Assembly to midwife the process of giving legal backing to the National Youth Council of Nigeria.