Nupe Natives of Lokoja, has launched its CAMPDAVID Multipurpose Cooperative Union Limited, registered with the Kogi State Government, aimed at facilitating development to Nupe native community in Lokoja and her entire residents.
Twelve other Cooperative Societies are registered to operate under the umbrella of the union which was launched in Lokoja over the weekend.
In his remarks, the Etsu Lokoja and Chairman, Lokoja Native Traditional Council, HRH Emmanuel Akamisoko Dauda Shelika – Nyamkpa IV, performed the flag off ceremony during the first Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Nupe Natives of Lokoja in 2026.
The AGM was organized to showcase Nupe Natives culture and had interactions on how to attract development to their community.
The Royal Father in his speech, said that the Cooperative Union and its other sub-societies would no doubt facilitate people’s zeal to embark on self-help development that would impact on their living standards.
According to him, the newly registered cooperative societies would serve as veritable tools with which our people could utilize to generate funds to enable them embark on self-help projects such as drilling of motorized boreholes for portable water supply, rural electrification and health clinics amongst others.
“The need to complement government’s efforts in the provision of basic infrastructure for improved living conditions of citizens cannot be over emphasized, hence our desire as a people to do the needful,” he said.
The Etsu Lokoja used the occasion to call on the younger generation of the community to embrace skills acquisition of vocational enterprises such tailoring, welding, fabrication, carpentry, plumbing, hair dressing and farming among others for self-reliance.
He also disclosed his community’s planned programmes for this new year to include; facilitating Summer Studies, Medical Outreaches for the less privileged, cultural and political summits.
He commended Kogi State Governor, His Excellency, Alh. Ahmed Usman Ododo, for his passion to carry everybody along in his development programmes irrespective of political, ethnic and religious differences.
He reiterated the loyalty of his people to the present administration in Kogi State and assured that the tempo would be sustained.
