Honourable Tolulope Akande-Sadipe, the lawmaker representing Oluyole Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, has empowered her constituents with cash-grants.
As contained in a release by her media aide, Olamilekan Olusada, the lawmaker distributed the grants and financial support to members of her constituency at Podo, Oluyole Local Government, Ibadan, at the weekend.
Honourable Akande-Sadipe also witnessed the graduation ceremony of beneficiaries of three other entrepreneurship programs which commenced earlier in the week.
She 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.
She said the skills acquired include post-harvest losses/reductions of staple crops; development of seedlings for ginger/tumeric, potatoes/sweet potatoes and cocoyam/yam, and fingerlings production and hatchery management.
The federal legislator, during the distribution of financial support to the trainees, said beneficiaries cut across all communities and ethnic groups living in Oluyole Local Government Area.
She said: “We empowered a set of beneficiaries and concluded the training and empowerment of some other people in my constituency today (Saturday).
“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 hovernment.
“After the completion of the three programmes we empowered the participants with business startup and expansion funds to start or expand their businesses in the competency areas,” she said.
Zonal Director, South-West Office of Nigeria Directorate of Employment, Mr. Ayodele Lasisi, commended Honourable Tolu Akande-Sadipe for her unrelenting assistance to her constituency.
He described the exercise as the best way to reduce unemployment and encourage self-reliance, adding “We must commend Rep. Tolu 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.”
A former caretaker chairman, Oluyole Local Government Area, James Adeleke, said Akande-Sadipe has touched every community in Oluyole with her good representation.
A community leader, Mr. Dauda Adebisi, said, at least, 6,150 beneficiaries have benefitted the empowerment programmes.of the Federal lawmaker, adding she has built 13 schools, while the construction of a primary school in Ajogbelede is ongoing.
Mr. Adebisi hinted that, within 30 months, the lawmaker has also facilitated installation of 23 transformers and appealed to residents of Oluyole to ensure her re-election in 2023.
One of the beneficiaries, Mercy Uzor, a non-indigene who resides in 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 indigeneship. But today, this woman has breathed a new life in me. Thank you, Tolulope Akande-Sadipe for remembering me,” she said.
Other beneficiaries appreciated Honourable Tolulope Akande-Sadipe, admitting to her impactful representation in Oluyole Federal Constituency.
