By Okey Maduforo,  Awka 


The people of Onne Community in Orumba South LGA of Anambra State have been  empowered by gifts to the tune of N140 million from the Ezeakunne Foundation in celebration of the Yuletide season 


A break down of the gift items include a Mercedes 911 tipper at the cost of N28 million given to a son of the community for business as well as four shuttle buses at the cost of N36 million and bags of rice and cash offers bringing the total sum to N140 million.


According to the Chairman and sponsor of Ezeakunne Foundation Nze Vincent Nwankwo:  "By this time last year we had more than enough to go round and people were hopping that this year would be better 


"But by this year's January dollar rose from N700.00 per naira to N1,600.90 per dollar there by affecting a lot of things and that accounts for the low key celebration of our foundation


"But this would not stop me from reaching out and touching the lives of my people Onne Community and I shall never be discouraged from doing what I can for God and humanity


"The 911 tipper that you see is for one of our sons who needs it to work and take care of his family and you know that with this vehicle not only his family would feed  from it and that is what I call empowerment


"We also have four shuttle buses for transportation in order to engage our youths into  something meaningful and discouraged them from going into crime


"We are also sharing bags of rice to our people because this is a festive season and no matter how small the number is it would definitely go a long way to put food on their resources tables " he said.


Also speaking the former Chairman of Orumba South local government area Prince Neville  Uchendu noted that what the Foundation is doing is highly commendable adding that this has shown that people still have the milk of human kindness in them" he noted .