Peeping Into Ariam-Usaka Multi-purpose Secretariat For Entrepreneurship

Ariam-Usaka Professionals (AUP) is set to launch its national headquarters on 29 December, 2021.

The organisers expect to raise the sum of ₦150,000,000 (one hundred and fifty million naira). As preparations gather momentum Ndi Ariam-Usaka are indeed about to witness a legacy project driven by sons and daughters who have thrown away personal inclinations.

The ceremony is going to be a grand celebration of hard work, excellence, team work, professionalism and dedication to service to the community. The national headquarters is a dream that berthed immediately after the epochal 2019 Ariam-Usaka Conference which was hugely successful by all standards.

As shown in its Vision 2020-2025 document captured under a pragmatic programme titled EDEP (Education, Development, Enlightenment and Prosperity), the association had dreamt of erecting a world-class corporate complex in the community which would serve as an administrative centre where it would interface with the community on a daily basis.

The centre was planned to provide a meeting point for the community and the association to understand, harness and implement certain landmark needs of the community through the EDEP strategy. The berthing of the National Headquarters is a testimony that AUP is sincere with the promises it made in 2019.

The association, working with faith, took immediate steps after the 2019 Conference to acquire some parcels of land. This is the first step in the quest to unfold this massive dream of building a national headquarters which we are all preparing to witness this festive period.

Indeed, in its quest to give back to the community the association took decision to make the complex a public property. It was this drive that led to the decision for a three-pronged facility. These facilities are the Ariam-Usaka Youth Skill Acquisition Centre, Ariam-Usaka Library and a Conference Centre.

The skill centre is planned to have various departments, including furniture, automobile, computer studies, catering/hotel management, barbing salon, hairdressing /cosmetology, welding and fashion designing.

The Library is an effort to enhance learning and reading culture in our children. This is in tandem with the strategic vision of the association to pursue the gift of quality education for our people.

The Conference Centre on the other hand is going to serve various needs, especially as a platform to engage our people in brainstorming as we work together for the realisation of our common goals for our community. Gone will be the days when we used to look for an event centre to meet with our people.

The centre is going to host various discourses on the socioeconomic and political circumstances of our community. It will contain a Research Unit that will be saddled with the responsibility of developing research topics and documentation of works arising from discourses.

The centre is planned to be a breathtaking architectural masterpiece, beautifully designed and lined up with greenery. There will also be relaxation spots in the complex as they say “all works and no play make Jack a dull boy”. The fear of where to pack your car will not arise as there is going to be enough parking lot for everyone.

It is AUP’s plan that in the next three years the centre will witness the establishment of Ariam-Usaka Community Radio station. This is part of AUP’s EDEP programme to continue to enlighten our community in order to bring everybody into the unity of purpose to work together as one people to build our community.

The radio station will harness the energy and culture of our community to position them for development. The foundation laying ceremony of the national headquarters of AUP is a call for sober reflection. It is a call upon our people, our friends, our partners to join hands to work together for the development of our dear community.

AUP is only creating an opportunity, a platform for everyone to step upon. The skill centre, library and conference centre are not AUP’s property but that of the community. Everyone is a stakeholder. It belongs to every indigene of the community, presently and generations to come.

The association is appealing to our friends and partners from the LGA, political heavyweights, industrialists, educationists, investors from across the states to step in and take pride in this complex. For instance, the various halls of the departments in the skill centre may require sponsorship. Everyone is free to make enquiries on what kind of sponsorship partnership will be involved.

It is our prayer that our good Lord shall be with you all as you prepare to be part of this great event.

Written by Ifeanyi Ibe, immediate past president, AUP  for the media team.