Oyo empowers women with generators, freezers

The Wife of Oyo State Governor, Mrs. Florence Ajimobi, at the weekend distributed empowerment materials to 198 women across the state as part of efforts to develop the women economically and make them self-reliant.

The items distributed at the Adamasingba, Ibadan, venue of the programme, included deep freezers, generating sets and cash. 
Ajimobi, while speaking at the occasion, described women as agents of change, urging them not to make themselves redundant but to always strive to make positive impact not only in their respective families, but also in the society at large.
She said that the empowerment of women had become necessary in order to enable them to contribute their own quota to the development of the state.
Ajimobi commended the state government through the state Ministry of Women Affairs, Community Development, Social Welfare and Poverty Alleviation for striving to empower women and take them above poverty level.
In her remarks, the state Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs. Atinuke Osukoya, decried the high rate of poverty among women in the state, stressing the need to urgently provide succor to them through empowerment programmes.
The commissioner commended the state governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, for creating an enabling environment for women to make positive impact in the development of the state as part of his administration’s transformation agenda.
Two of the beneficiaries, Mrs. Ayinla Temilade and Mrs. Oluwabunmi Olalere, who could not hide their feelings, expressed appreciation to the state government for counting them worthy for the empowerment.
The gesture, they said, was a further confirmation of the love that the Action Congress of Nigeria-led administration had for the less privileged members of the society.