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According to a media aide of the Governor, the gesture is to make the youths self-reliant and self-employed instead of going around looking for non-existent white collar jobs.

However, a Facebook user, Moses Ochonu who posted photographs of the wheelbarrows with the inscription took a swipe at the manner of empowerment by calling it an embarrassment.

This is what Ochonu wrote:

"Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has forced me out of my self-imposed Facebook hiatus. Don't laugh; this is youth empowerment and job creation, Ortom style.

Who dey do us dis thing? Who did we offend?"

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To justify the wheelbarrow empowerment scheme, a government official noted that the move by the Governor came because Benue is a state known for farming and the governor decided to provide youths with wheelbarrows to help in carrying their produce from their farmlands.