Pan-Urhobo group of professionals, Atamu Social Club, has pledged to set up a N10 billion fund to support projects capable of driving sustainable economic development of the Urhobo nation.
Members of the club also urged sacked factional leaders of the Urhobo Progressive Union (UPU), Chiefs Joe Omene and Tuesday Onoge, to accept the dissolution of their executive committees as a necessary part of efforts to reposition the Urhobo people.
In a communiqué at the end of its three-day retreat in Lagos State, the club said it was embarking on the N10billion Urhobo Trust Fund for the community.
The communiqué signed by President and Secretary General of the club, Messrs Johnson Agagbo and Benson Uwheru respectively, urged the Urhobo people to take responsibility for their wellbeing rather than persistently complaining of government’s failure to address their challenges.
It said: “Urhobo should go beyond advocacy and focus on practical interventionist models to reposition the Urhobo nation.
“It is time to stop the endless lamentation and begin to conceptualise a vision with clear strategies to actualise them.”