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Founder and President of Uma Ukpai Evangelistic Association (UUEA), Rev. Uma Ukpai, has trained and empowered no less than 35 entrepreneurs with N10 million as a donation in Akwa Ibom State.

The beneficiaries were trained in key areas of fiscal and business management, among other areas, to provide them with outstanding proficiencies’ to increase their obtainable businesses.

The Church added that the beneficiaries were empowered after a serious examination of them.

While disbursing the donation to the beneficiaries in the Church auditorium, at the weekend, in Uyo, the minister divulged that the quintessence of the empowerment was to eliminate lack.

Ukpai remembered that when he lost his father at a very tender age, he knew what poverty was like. He also added that at the age of four, he journeyed into a business that earned him over N70, 000 a week to sustain his family.

He said: “I want to tell you that age has nothing to do with wealth creation; what we all need are contact to the vital information.”

“I want to tell you that we have introduced you to a partnership with God, and what is left is the responsibility you have to take. We have trained you on how to depend on God, how to call him and for information.

“I needed about N13 million to give the National University Commission (NUC) part of the money for turning our (the Church) Polytechnic into a University, giving you (beneficiaries) N10 million. By yesterday, I didn’t know how the money was going to come.

“But there is this information that only God can give and can change you into something else. I got the money through God’s intervention.”

Ukpai urged the beneficiaries to use the donation to enlarge their businesses and generate employment for other unemployed people.

In n interview with some news men, one of the overall winners of the grant, Elder Ini-obong Akwa, expressed contentment for the gesture, assuring that the grant will be multiplied through careful management and job creation.

Another beneficiary, Uduak Daniel, said she was trained in entrepreneurship, but did not dream of receiving such a huge amount of money, adding that she will ensure that her business would be expanded to create employment for others.