Oyo lawmaker, Akinmoyede, organises empowerment training for 700 constituents 

The Lawmaker representing the Akinyele/Lagelu federal constituency, Hon. Akinmoyede Olafisoye Wasiu, on Tuesday, 30th September 2025, facilitated a 150-million-naira training/empowerment programme on fish farming for no fewer than 600 fish farmers in his constituency.

The lawmaker facilitated the empowerment programme through the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN) in conjunction with Holatekun International Services Limited for selected youths and women who specialized in fish farming in Akinyele/Lagelu federal constituency.

At the end of the one-day training held at the Faith Joe Event Centre, Alegongo, Ibadan, each of the beneficiaries was given artificial fish ponds, fingerlings, fish feeds, and N200,000 each as start-up capital.

Similarly, the lawmaker also facilitated another 3-day training on entrepreneurship basics and empowerment skills under the 2025 capital project support for vulnerable persons in Akinyele/Lagelu federal constituency.

At the end of the training attended by 100 youths within the Akinyele/Lagelu federal constituency, each participant also received #200,000 financial support for their businesses and certificates of participation.

Speaking on the two programmes, Hon. Akinmoyede Wasiu stressed that the motive behind the gesture was to teach the beneficiaries drawn from 26 wards in the Akinyele/Lagelu constituency to acquire necessary skills to be self-reliant and further reduce the level of poverty among the people in his constituency.

Hon. Lafi, who enjoined the beneficiaries to utilize the knowledge they acquired at the training and the money judiciously, disclosed that more empowerment programmes are underway for those who did not benefit from this one before the end of the last quarter of the year 2025.

The Oyo Central senatorial Chairman of the APC, Hon. Joshua Oyebamiji, who spoke on behalf of the party, stated that from what happened at the programme, coupled with Hon. Lafi’s impressive performance, who has been serving his constituents conscientiously, the party may have no choice than to stand by him for re-election because the APC today stands on justice and fair play.

Also speaking, a former Vice-chairman of APC in Oyo State, Alhaji Isiaka Alimi, also attested to Hon. Lafi’s outstanding performance, which, according to him, is quite different from his predecessors in the said federal constituency.

The coordinators of one of the training sessions, Mr Okunubi Goriola and some of the beneficiaries, Jimoh Ridwan Oladayo, Dr. Akintunde Isiaka, youth leader of Lagelu local government; Hon. Teslim Olomopupo, youth leader of Akinyele local government; Mrs Abosede Abodunrin, Women Leader of Lagelu local government;  and Mrs Felicia Osunbunmi, Women Leader of Akinyele local government, appreciated Hon. Lafi for always accommodating the youth and women whenever he organises empowerment programmes for his constituents.

Some of the APC leaders who attended the programme include Alhaji Fatai Awoyoola, Engr. Akinniyi Emmanuel Akinbode, Arch. Hassan Giwa, Hon. Biodun Oladeji, Hon. D.A. Lawal, Hon. Mukaila Ambali, Hon. M.L. Lawal, Hon. Debo Arowomole, among others.

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