Senator Olamilekan Adeola empowers 3000 constituents

Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, representing Lagos West Senatorial District has once again put smiles on the faces of his constituents as he empowered over 3000 persons in the Senatorial District today at Haven hall GRA Ikeja, Lagos.

The empowerment programmes targeted at youths and womenfolk is to improve their livelihoods.The 3000 beneficiares have been trained across the lagos west Senatorial district  in Leatherwork, Fashion, Hair dressing, Barbing, Fish Production, Interior Decoration/Event Planning, Catering/ Confectionaries, Interlock Block Production, Solar Energy Business to mention but few.

They will be empowered with requisite equipment and start up cash grants Oko-owo Yayi  with immediate effect to start their businesses. He urged them not to sell  the equipment but to make use of it wisely.

However, this is the third empowerment programme this year after the mega one at Police College in Ikeja in February 2022 and the one that 1000 graduates were trained in various internationally recognized ICT courses in June.

Giving his remarks at the empowerment programme, the distinguished Senator expressed his gratitude to the people and joy in witnessing yet another epoch event targeted at skills acquisition in eleven areas of various skills acquisition and vocations.

The target  is for gainful employment for youths and women in my senatorial district, Lagos West irrespective of sex, tribe, religion or political affiliation.

In his words, “I am happy that my constituents are beneficiaries of this initiatives facilitated by me as part of my representative function in the Senate at the National Assembly.

“As a legislator of many years, I have made it of paramount importance that as many youths and women as possible in my senatorial district are given requisite skills and empowered to established them in gainful self-employment. Towards this end, many training for skill acquisition, entrepreneurship development and ICT as well as empowerment with equipment had taken place in the past with thousands of beneficiaries that are now gainfully employed.

“Last weekend, I facilitated a staggered 3-Day Lagos West Fair at the LTV Blue Roof, Ikeja for locally made goods with about 100 exhibitors participating to show case their goods, make sales and get requisite empowerment and knowledge to improve on their products and business growth. Some of the exhibitors are product of similar past skills acquisition and vocational trainings. It is my hope that many of the participants to be empowered here will soon be in the business of producing locally made goods at the level of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises(MSMEs).