By Richard Akintade, Osogbo
The Senator representing Osun West, Senator Adelere Oriolowo has called on the participants of the entrepreneurship training for business development for selected youths and widows across the 10 local governments of his senatorial district to use the knowledge acquired to improve themselves.
Senator Oriolowo, who made this call through the legislative aid to Senate President, Ayofe-Adisa, said he decided to facilitate the recurrent empowerment programme due to his commitment to ensure that the dividends of democracy get across to the grassroots even as he vowed to continue to protect the interest of his constituents as their representative.
He stressed that the beneficiaries were selected across the 10 local government areas of the state that constituted his senatorial district.
According to Senator Oriolowo, the gesture was borne out of his passion to develop his constituent for them to be self-reliance as it was enshrined in his campaign promises.
The Iwo born politician said the empowerment programmes are birthed out of commitment and services to humanity.
Senator Oriolowo also enjoined the widows who were beneficiaries of the basic business empowerment to use the token given to them to boost their businesses.
He said he will not relent in his oars to cater for the needs of the people and better the life of the needy in the society.
He urged the beneficiaries to make use of the opportunity accorded them to develop their career in life.
Also speaking, Alhaja Aminat Eniola of Local Government Education Authority in Ayedaade appreciated Senator Adelere Oriolowo for such insightful programme as well as encouraged participants to make good use of the training they got.
“Senator Adelere Oriolowo’s empowerment programmes are recurrent. How do I mean? We have done some of these in before. Solar-powered engineers, soap makers, kampala makers and even agriculture sector. In fact there is one we did for hairdressers. After the training we gave them equipment and cash for shop rents. In agriculture sector, we gave the beneficiaries five cows each for startups,” she said.
One of the beneficiaries, Mrs. Ajiboye Yetunde appreciated Senator Adelere Oriolowo for the opportunity availed to them.
“We thank our Senator for the opportunity to be beneficiaries of these programmes. May God continue to be with him. We believe he did these so as to ameliorate poverty in the country. We can see that from 29th of November that we have been here, we have been taught so many things in business. We learned how to create and sustain small businesses into large businesses via strategic planning.
“We also learn how to identify human wants in our community, package them for business purposes and turn it into a lucrative business. I pray that God continues to strengthen him. He wouldn’t let Osun State be in disarray. Tell the Senator we appreciate him,” she said.
In the same vein, Mr. Tajudeen Sulaiman Adigun who was one of the beneficiaries said, “We appreciate God, and after Him our distinguished Senator. We appreciate our Senator because if after all the training he didn’t add the startup monies, what do we need to do?
“His gesture of these programmes are indications of ingratitude he feels for confidence we had in his candidacy and voted him as our representative.
“I understand that for some, this is a startup, while for some this is an Integral part. However, I urge these two sects to put training and monies given to purposeful and progressive causes,” he concluded.
Participants were trained on various acquisition programme and the widows were trained on basic business training.
The training was on business development for youths and women and presentation of cash grants to co-operative society for widows in the senatorial district.
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