Empowers 400 constituents

By Bashir Adefaka

The best of empowerment, many have said, is to teach people how to fish and not to continuously give them fish.   It is not clear if this popular saying prompted the member, House of Representative representing Irepo/Orelope/Olorunsogo Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Honorable Bosun Oladele when, as a departure from the culture of giving out money for temporary benefit by politicians of his clime, the federal lawmaker, by way of his constituency project as captured in the 2015 Budget, decided to empower his constituents in a way that they would be able to carry on with their jobs at hands in a more productive way.

Oladele is won election to represent Irepo/Orelope/Olorunsogo Federal Constituency in Abuja as a resilient All Progressives Congress (APC) faithful during the March 28, 2015 general elections.

On Thursday May 5, 2016 he dazzled 400 people drawn from the three local governments that make up his federal constituency with massive empowerment resulting from distribution of materials worth of N35 million to justify his representative function at the Green Chamber of the National Assembly.

At an event helt at Tafoo Event Centre, Igbeti, headquarters of Olorunsogo Local Government Area of Oyo State, Oladele, a constitutional lawyer and former Oyo State Commissioner for Informationa and Orientation, said the empowerment scheme was the first phase of the Oladele Youth Alliance for Progressive Agenda. He noted that the empowerment scheme was part of the report and dividends of democracy brought for his constituents who voted for him to represent them in Abuja, adding that it would be a continuous exercise, “because I must keep on reporting to you from time to time.”

On what informed the empowerment programme, Oladele journalists: “The first thing that informed the empowerment is need.  I was telling people there is always the need to do what is called ‘needs assessment.’  Igbeti or Irepo/Orelope/Olorunsogo Federal Constituency is different from the cities.  And what you will require if you are from Ibadan or Lagos will be different from what you will require if you are from an agrarian community like this.  Number one, in each of the three local governments that make up this federal constituency, we have at least 105 villages, farm settlements and people need to get there.  So, the most comfortable, available and accessible means of transportation becomes motorcycle.  The people are basically farmers, who need to go to their farm.  Most of the farm centres, you can only navigate them through motorcycle and so motorcyle becomes priority need,” he said.

Highlighting some of his contributions, the representative said, “I am also working hard to ensure that the abandoned Badagry –Sokoto Road and some other roads and infrastructural projects are completed for the benefit of our people.”