Adesola Adedayo, representing Apapa Federal Constituency, has distributed five different empowerment items to no fewer than 155 residents of Apapa and Iganmu constituency.

The items given out included eight Tricycles, 18 chest freezers, 25 generating sets, 51 grinding machines, and 51 sewing machines.

“ Dr Adesola Adedayo said, “I gave out about eight Keke Maruwa, 18 freezers. And about 51 grinding machines and 51 sewing machines”

“We selected the beneficiaries across those wards and polling units, we ensure that women are not left behind. We are also gender sensitive in our selection and it goes across,” he said

The lawmaker added that consideration was given to “all the stakeholders, both our party leaders, our members, the ordinary people on the street and the other members of the constituency were selected”.

Adedayo thanked party leaders for their unflinching support and promised to focus on youth empowerment.

Dr Tajudeen Olusi, the leader of the Governance Advisory Council of Lagos State, appealed to beneficiaries not to sell the items given to them for instant gratification.

“If our people will be sincere with what they do with items given at empowerment programmes, the beneficiaries will focus on steady growth and not sell the items for quick cash,” Olusi said.

A beneficiary, Mrs Oluyemisi Oyinloye, 62, a petty trader, who got a grinding machine said that the grinder was a Christmas miracle.

” I have been saving up to buy this, but I eventually used the money for something else, thank you Dr Adedayo. God bless you,” she said.

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