The senator representing Oyo South Senatorial district in the National Assembly, Barrister Sharafadeen Alli, in his bid to alleviate poverty and promote self reliance among his constituents has empowered no fewer than 1000 constituents in the area of e-commerce and vocational training.
The two-day training programme held in Igboora and Ibadan has participants drawn from across the 99 wards in the nine local governments that make up the senatorial district.
Alli said that the programme was aimed at alleviating poverty and creating job opportunities. He described it as a great economic tool to make constituents self-reliant.
He said that he had, after the election, made the decision to give back to the society who voted him into office.
The lawmaker said that about 1000 participants drawn from across the 99 wards were trained on e-commerce and vocational training.
“We sincerely believe those who participated in the two trainings will be able to use it in their different trades. It will afford some to start a different trade on their own.
“We have about a thousand participants for e-commerce and other two sets of vocational training.
“In the next one or two weeks, we are also going to distribute fertilisers to people of Ibarapa and the agrarian parts of Ido Local Government which is up to five wards, making 35 wards,” he said.
Dr Chubby Egu, a Petroleum Chemist from Trato Nigeria Limited, said the training was facilitated to empower constituents and make them self-reliant.
“It will benefit so many of them because they would be able to start-up their business and generate income to take care of themselves.
“They will acquire knowledge to do a lot of things. It is a very good thing that our Distinguished Senator Sharafadeen Alli, actually brought this to his constituency,” he said.
Alhaji Mojeed Olaoya, the APC Senatorial Chairman for Oyo South, described the senator as a man of his words, a doer and wonderful representative of the people.
He said it was exactly six months that the senator assumed office and he had already done a lot, including this training programme.
“I want to say that for the first time in the history of Oyo South, our senator in less than a year, has wonderfully empowered his constituents as well as palliatives distributed for the people of the constituency. I must confess to you that he is doing wonderfully well. We are proud of him in this constituency,” he said.
Shuaibu Sani, one of the beneficiaries, appreciated Senator Alli, describing it as a stepping stone towards poverty eradication in the district.
“I think this is a stepping stone towards eradicating poverty out of my life and the entire people participating.
“If we put this into use, we can forget anything about poverty and it will give us food, and everything on our table,” he said.
Another beneficiary, Mrs Bunmi Agbaje, thanked the senator for his usual support to constituents, appreciating his commitment to implementing beneficial programmes and initiatives.
“It is very exciting. We give it to our amiable Senator Sharafadeen Alli for this programme and initiative given to us. We say a big thank you to him.”
