The Senator representing Osun West, in Osun state, Senator Adelere Adeyemi Oriolowo has reiterated his complete efforts in transforming the living standard of all and sundry in his Senatorial District.
Senator Oriolowo who made this assurance through the Legislative Aid to Senate President, Honourable Tajudeen Ayofe-Adisa, at the entrepreneurship training for business development held at Iwo on Friday said nothing will stop him from facilitating any programmes that would improve the living condition of his people.
He admonished the participants of the selected youths and widows across the 10 local governments of his Senatorial District to use the knowledge acquired from the training to improve their living standards.
Senator Oriolowo said he decided to facilitate the recurrent empowerment programmes due to his commitment to ensuring 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 governments area 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-reliant 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 medium scale businesses.
He said he will not relent in his oars to cater for the needs of the people and better the lives of the needy in society.
He urged the beneficiaries to make use of the opportunity accorded them to develop their carrier in life.
Also speaking, Alhaja Aminat Eniola of the Local Government Education Authority in Ayedaade appreciated Senator Adelere Oriolowo for such an 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 before. Solar-powered engineers, soap makers, Kampala makers and even the agriculture sector. In fact, there is one we did for hairdressers. After the training, we gave them equipment and cash for shop rents. In the agricultural sector, we gave the beneficiaries five cows each for startups,” she partly said.
One of the beneficiaries, Mrs. Ajiboye Yetunde appreciated Senator Adelere Oriolowo for the opportunity available to them.
“We thank our Senator for the opportunity to provide to us to be beneficiaries of these programmes. May God continues to be with him. We believe he did these so as to ameliorate poverty in the country. We can see that from the 29th of November that we have been here, we have been taught so many things in businesses. 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 the 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 programs 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.
