Lawmaker empowers 155 residents of Apapa constituency

 



 


Empowerment




Mr Adeola Adedayo, representing Apapa Federal Constituency, on Tuesday distributed five different empowerment items to no fewer than 155 residents of Apapa and Iganmu constituency.


The distribution held at the Apapa AstroTurf.


The items given out included eight Tricycles, 18 chest freezers, 25 generating sets, 51 grinding machines and 51 sewing machines.


“There were about eight Keke Maruwa, 17 or 18 freezers. We also have about 51 grinding machines, 51 sewing machines.


“We selected them by looking at the pooling units because that is the basic unit of voting. We know that there are 10 wards in Apapa.


“So, we selected the beneficiaries across those wards and polling units and then, we also want to ensure that women are not left behind. We are also gender sensitive in our selection and it goes across,” he said


The lawmaker said consideration was given to “all the stakeholders, both our party leaders, our members, the ordinary people on the street and the other members of the constituency were selected”.


Adedayo thanked party leaders for their unflinching support and promised to focus on youths empowerment.



Dr Tajudeen Olusi, the leader of the Governance Advisory Council of Lagos State, appealed to beneficiaries not to sell the items given to them for instant gratification.


“If our people will be sincere with what they do with items given at empowerment programmes, beneficiaries please focus on steady growth, do not sell these items for quick cash,” Olusi said.


Mr Johnson Anifowose, a teacher and one of the beneficiaries who went home with a tricycle, said he didn’t expect it.


On how he intended to combine teaching and transportation, he said he’d manage his time judiciously.


” I didn’t see this coming, I will do transportation business after I close from school. I want to appreciate our leaders for finding me worthy,” he said.


Similarly Mrs Oluyemisi Oyinloye, 62, a petty trader, who got a grinding machine said that the grinder was a Christmas miracle.


” I have been saving up to buy this, but I eventually used the money for something else, thank you Dr Adedayo. God bless you,” she said. (NAN)

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