No fewer than 200 persons have benefited from another empowerment programme facilitated by the lawmaker representing Okene/Ogori Magongo Federal Constituency at the National Assembly.
The entrepreneurship programme was organised in Ebira Muslim Community College (EMCCO) Town Hall, Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State.
The empowerment came a few weeks after 300 women were empowered with N20,000 cash each by the lawmaker. It will be recalled that the lawmaker facilitated the upgrade and expansion of Akokobe Bridge along Cemetery road, which work began last week.
A Federal lawmaker, Tijani ~Ahmed Damisa, representing Okene/Ogori Magongo Federal Constituency in Kogi State, has empowered no fewer than 200 youths and women in Okene and Ogori Magongo Local Government Area with agricultural inputs such as Chicken, feeds, feeder, drinkers
This was done in a startup training course in collaboration with Federal College of Agriculture, Ibadan and Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN) on poultry farming to reduce unemployment in the Kogi Central zone of the state.
The three-day training programme, which took place in Okene area of the state, was attended by the 200 participants who benefitted from the programme and were trained on modern methods and techniques of poultry and fish farming, snail rearing as well as other farm production.
The representative of the lawmaker in person of Hon. Abdulsalam Ikunaiye explained that Hon. Tijani~Ahmed Damisa had chosen cash empowerment after due consultation with his constituents, adding that he was sure that it would have direct impact on their small scale businesses.
While Hon. Adams Ibrahim Kadoka implored them to use the resources judiciously for the purpose it was meant for, assuring that apart from the ongoing ones, other physical projects would be executed soon.
One of the beneficiaries from Okene LGA, Hon. Yekini Isah Okino, expressed delight at what he described as an “outstanding and impactful project.” Okino, who got start-up pack with the sum of N20,000, said it would help him begin a profitable poultry business.
Another beneficiary from Ogori Magongo LG, who also got the same start-up pack, said that there couldn’t have been a better way to alleviate people’s suffering at the grassroots than such empowerment programme.
By:
Comrade Adabara Abduljelil Adabara
