The Solomon Giwa-Amu Foundation has earmarked over N50 million this year for its empowerment programme targeting youth in Army barracks across the country. This was made known at the weekend during a symposium to mark ten years memorial anniversary of the late Brig. Gen. Solomon Giwa-Amu, former Aide de Camp to former president Olusegun Obasanjo.
The event which held at the Sheraton Hotel in Abuja was attended by former Cross River State governor, Liyel Imoke, former Head of Service of the Federation, Steve Oronsaye and former Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, Mr Fola Adeola. The empowerment programme for barrack youth was initiated by the late Giwa-Amu and has been sustained in the last ten years by the foundation founded by family and friends of the deceased.
Speaking at the event, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukuk Buratai, represented by the Chief of Civil Military Relations, Major General Nuhu Angbanso said the Nigerian Army will continue to appreciate late Giwa-Amu for the services he rendered to the Army and the nation at large. On his part, former MD of GTB, Adeola said Solomon Giwa-Amu was a man of “integrity, highly disciplined, professional in his calling and generous.” In her remarks, Mrs Judith Solomon Giwa-Amu commended the committee of friend for standing by the family, saying she would remain eternally grateful for their support, prayers and calls which helped in to sustain legacies of her late husband.
