Lawmaker Trains, Empowers 60 Physically Challenged Persons, Others In Kwara

Date: 2021-11-18

Sixty selected physically challenged persons drawn from the Ilorin East and Ilorin South federal constituency of Kwara state have been trained on various empowerment skills and vocations for their economic self-reliance.

Speaking at the 13th edition of the empowerment training programme for the people in Ilorin on Wednesday, the lawmaker representing the area, Alhaji Abdulganiyu Cook Olododo, said that he organized the one-week training programme to discourage the people from begging.

Represented by Alhaji Sa’ad Tajudeen, the lawmaker said that an additional 160 able-bodied youth in the federal constituency have also enjoyed empowerment training, adding that the physically challenged persons and other beneficiaries would be presented with various equipment to carry out practical aspects of their training.

He said that the people were asked about their areas of individual preference in a needs assessment activity carried out before the training programme, adding that some of the items to be presented to the beneficiaries include industrial machines, deep freezers, power generators, among other items.

The lawmaker, who said that the aim was to stop giving the people fish in form of financial hand-outs, added that is better to teach them how to catch fish.

“The programme is meant to make our people have something doing which will in turn fetch them money. We don’t want them to go borrowing or dependent on people. This, we hope will make them be self-reliant and be financially independent. The people would be presented with equipment after the training.

“We thus admonish them not to sell the items we are presenting to them in order to attract more benefits and encourage the lawmaker to do more for the constituents”.

He also charged the people to continue their support for the lawmaker, saying that the benefits being enjoyed is part of their contribution for electing the lawmaker as their representative in the National Assembly.

Alhaji Olododo, who advised the people not to sell the equipment, said that a committee would be set up to monitor how the beneficiaries put whatever they are given to good and judicious use.

Speaking on behalf of the consultant for the training programme, Dr Hauwa Aliyu of the Synergy Consultant Firm, charged the people to make good use of the equipment provided to them to help change their economic status for the better, saying that they should not keep them at home redundant.

One of the beneficiaries, Mr Kazeem Alao, on behalf of others, appreciated the lawmaker for the gesture, assuring that they would make good use of the empowerment equipment.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Irepodun     Toyin Saraki     Zulu Gambari     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Gwanara     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Oke-Ode     Femi Oladiji     Leke Ogungbe     Oyelere Oyinloye     Abatemi Usman     Labaeka     ITP     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Yusuf Aiyedun     Obayomi Azeez     Apado     Nupe     Minister     Abioye Bello     Alaaya     Funmilayo Oniwa     Ijagbo     Henry Makinwa     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Salake     ENetSuD     Oniwasi Agbaye     Khairat Gwadabe     MalHub     Jide Oyinloye     Muritala Olarewaju     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Garba Ado Sanni     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     Doyin Agbamu     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Prince Sunday Fagbemi     Offa Poly     Rafiu Ajakaye     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Just Law Forum     Igosun     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     Olusola Saraki     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Baba Idris     Olaiya Zuberu     Taofik Abdulkareem     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Amoyo     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Henry Olaosebikan     Riskat Opakunle     Atunwa     KWASEIC     Offa Metropolitan Club     Centre For Digital Economy     Jalala     Yusuf Ali     TIIDELab     Shehu Jimoh     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Kola Shittu     Kumbi Titiloye     Musa Yeketi     Senate     Bayer Nigeria Limited     KWASSIP     Aso Ofi     Hauwa Nuru     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Yinka Aluko    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Kwara State Television     Share-Tsaragi     FOMWAN     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Salami Adekunle     Buhari     Ahmed \'Lateef     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Sayomi     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Abatemi Usman     NULGE     Allocation     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Rasheed Jimoh     Atiku     Charcoal     Kayode Issa     Ahmed     Crystal Corner Shops     Ibrahim Abiodun     COVID     Nigeria Computer Society     Balogun-Ojomu     Oke-opin     Quran     Lanre Issa Onilu     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Saka Keji     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     ASMAU PLAZA     Olatunji Moronfoye     Tinubu     Donatus Ejidike     Iqra Books     Ibrahim Abikan     Taofeek Ibraheem     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Ayobami Seriki     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Yaru     Sunset Workers     JAMB     Yahya Mohammed     CCB     Kunbi Titiloye     Oloyede     Ben Duntoye     Busari Alabi Alausa     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     ANCOPPS     Eghe Igbinehi     Kulende-UITH     Oyawoye     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Abdulsalam Firdaous Amosa     Kwara State Government     Amuda Musbau     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Oba Abdulrahim     Baakini     Umar Sanda Yusuf     Saliu Oluwole     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Kwabes     IQRA College     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Durosinlohun Atiku     Arandun     Shehu Alimi Foundation     Olaoye B. Felix     Olushola Saraki     KFA     Sobi Hill     Okasanmi Ajayi