Politics
REP. Tolulope Akande-Sadipe(APC-Oluyole) has empowered her constituents with cash-grants and business start-up funds.
This is contained in a statement by her Media Aide, Olamilekan Olusada, on Saturday in Ibadan.
The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that the empowerment held on Friday at Podo in Oluyole Local Government of Ibadan rounded the number of constituents empowered by the lawmaker to 6000.
The lawmaker had earlier in the week, partnered with National Directorate of Employment (NDE) on entrepreneurship skills training programmes for women and youths in three different Agricultural entrepreneurship areas.
NAN reports that the lawmaker witnessed the graduation ceremony of beneficiaries of three other entrepreneurship programs which commenced earlier in the week.
Akande-Sadipe said that the skills acquired included Post Harvest Losses/Reductions of Staple Crops; Development of Seedlings for Ginger/Tumeric, Potatoes/Sweet Potatoes and Cocoyam/Yam.
The lawmaker listed other areas of training as fingerlings production and hatchery management.
She said that the beneficiaries were drawn from all the communities and ethnic groups living in Oluyole Local Government Area.
“We empowered a set of beneficiaries and concluded the training and empowerment of some other people in my constituency today.
“The empowerment programme commenced earlier this week, I pray the participants will benefit and improve their socio economic circumstances with this opportunity.”
“This is not our first empowerment programme in Oluyole. We have empowered so many people, through assistance from different agencies of Government,” she said.
Akande-Sadipe said that after the completion, the trainees were
empowered with business startup and expansion funds to start or expand their businesses in the competency areas.
Mr Ayodele Lasisi, the NDE Zonal Director in the South-West Office, commended the lawmaker for her unrelenting assistance to her constituency.
Lasisi, who monitored the exercise, described it as the best way to reduce unemployment and be self-reliant.
“We must commend Akande-Sadipe for partnering with the NDE. Her zeal, including her checks and balances to ensure that the grants get directly to the actual beneficiaries is also commendable,” he said.
He called on other lawmakers to emulate Akande-Sadipe, saying such would further help the state and country in the area of unemployment reduction.
Mr James Adeleke, a former Caretaker Chairman of the council, said Akande-Sadipe has touched every community in Oluyole with her good representation.
He lauded her for practicing politics of development in Oluyole with her numerous empowerment and infrastructure contributions.
Mr. Dauda Adebisi, a community leader, who enumerated Akande-Sadipe’s achievements, said no fewer than 6,150 constituents have benefitted from her empowerment programmes.
He added that the lawmaker had built 13 schools, including an ongoing construction of a primary school in Ajogbelede.
Adebisi, who appreciating the lawmaker, said that Akande-Sadie had facilitated installation of 23 transformers within 30 months.
He appealed to constituents to vote for the Representative in 2023, adding that she has also provided over 21 boreholes in the constituency.
Mercy Uzor, a beneficiary and non-indigene of Oluyole, commended Akande-Sadipe for her magnanimity in affecting the lives of all residents of the constituency.
“I did not expect that I would benefit from this empowerment programme, considering my South Eastern Nigeria indigenship, but today, this woman has breathed a new life in me. Thank you, Tolulope Akande-Sadipe for remembering me,” she said.
Other beneficiaries appreciated Akande-Sadipe, admitting her impactful representation in Oluyole Federal Constituency. (NAN)
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