PHOTOS: 300 Constituents Benefit From Skill Acquisition/Capacity Building Facilitated By Oyo Rep Olafisoye Akinmoyede

No fewer than 300 people today benefitted from the skill acquisition and empowerment programmes facilitated by the lawmaker representing the Akinyele/Lagelu federal constituency, Oyo for members of his constituency.

At the training programme which was held at the Faith Joe Event Centre, Alegongo, Akobo, Ibadan the lawmaker said his focus on this initiative is to give a relief package for the youths, the students and the graduates who are unemployed to have something to live on to alleviate the impact of the high cost of living in Nigeria.

The training was successfully concluded, with participants gaining hands-on experience and practical knowledge, while each participant received a certificate, a POS terminal machine, umbrella and ₦100,000 cash as startup grant to launch their businesses, to ensure they had the financial backing needed to operate.

While addressing the participants, Hon. Akinmoyede who is the Chairman House Committee on Nigeria/ Mexico Parliamentary Friendship enjoined the beneficiaries to explore the opportunity for their own benefits by ensuring that they use the machines for the purpose it was meant for.

He added that all the machines have been configured with the documents of individual beneficiaries which will make it very difficult to transfer to another person.

In his goodwill message, the Oyo Central Senatorial chairman of APC, Hon. Joshua Oyebamiji said comparing what Hon. Akinmoyede Olafisoye has been doing in the area of dishing out empowerment and palliatives to his constituents, it is difficult to tag him a first timer at the national assembly.

While appreciating the lawmaker for his gesture at the event, former APC Deputy state Chairman, Alhaji Isiaka Alimi, Hon. Fatai Awoyoola and Hon. Akinbode Emmanuel said they were yet to discover the magic wand being used by Hon. Akinmoyede for his constant and habitual empowerment programmes.

Some of the beneficiaries who spoke at the end of the training, Afolabi Kuburat, Akinropo Akindotun, Ajala Abisade Iyabo and Grace Anuoluwapo Ayinde lauded the lawmaker for giving them the opportunity to be self-reliant at this time when Nigerians are facing economic hardship.