While many of her contemporaries are busy strategising on how to return to the House of Representatives’, come 2023, the lawmaker representing Oluyole federal constituency in the lower chamber of the National Assembly, Hon Tolulope Akande-Sadipe, is busy delivering dividends of democracy to those whose mandate she holds in trust.
This is evidenced in the just concluded three-day training and empowerment programme in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, where over 200 of her constituents benefitted.
A statement issued by Akande-Sadipe’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Olalekan Olusada, stated that the beneficiaries were trained to prepare them for entrepreneurship or to improve their entrepreneurship skills.
This constituency project is one of the many Hon. Akande-Sadipe facilitated through the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Abuja.
The Oluyole federal constituency representative said that the just concluded training focused on basic skills required to successfully manage a skilled or unskilled business.
She added the programme was concluded on Sunday February 27, 2022, with an empowerment programme, where necessary manuals, training items and cash was distributed.
Akande-Sadipe, who chairs the House Committee on Diaspora Affairs stated that she remains committed to facilitating life changing opportunities that would alleviate poverty for her people, adding that this type of training gives room for budding entrepreneurs, who could be very successful in the future.
The federal lawmaker told the beneficiaries, “I encourage you to embrace entrepreneurship, because it is an assured path to financial freedom. From our office, we would keep bringing life changing opportunities like this to your doorsteps, because we believe learning skills, or a trade brings enormous financial opportunities.”
Advising the beneficiaries to go through the manuals provided to them, Hon Akande-Sadipe noted that it contains different steps an entrepreneur could take to succeed.
She identified some of the needed skills, such as marketing and customer service, branding and packaging, through which their businesses could prosper.
Also speaking at the event, the senatorial chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Hon. Olalekan Adeyemo, commended the lawmaker for her numerous contributions, too many to count, and her wisdom in stemming the tide of poverty in Oluyole federal constituency.
The former deputy chairman of the APC in Oyo State also opined that the lawmaker has improved the livelihood of many of her constituents, through facilitation of different programmes within and outside Ibadan.
One of the beneficiaries, Mrs. Moji Folarin, eulogised the lawmaker for the opportunity, while she also advised her co-beneficiaries to ensure that the money given to them is committed into their various businesses, and not diverted for inconsequential spending.
