The Executive Chairman of Onigbongbo LCDA, Hon Oladotun Olakanle has officially inaugurated a quarterly grants to small-scale business women and social welfare package to aged persons and widows in the LCDA on Thursday at the Onigbongbo Council Secretariat, Ikeja Local Government, Lagos, Nigeria,
Hon Olakanle in his address stated that “in fulfillment of my campaign promises, to help our women in their respective vocation, and also support our elders with cash grants, today we are commencing grants to our elderly persons and a revolving cash grants to small scale business women in Onigbongbo LCDA”.
The Onigbongbo Council Chairman advised fifty Small-Scale business Owners who got fifty-thousand naira each not use the funds on celebration but to improve their respective businesses.
He alluded that “those who were fortunate to be selected for the first phase should count themselves lucky, as ambassadors of the Council and make judicious use of the grants. Some other persons will be selected in the next quarter”
“It’s festival time but I urged you all not to use the fund for festivity but to improve your businesses”.
The beneficiaries were selected across the six wards of Onigbongbo LCDA.
One of the beneficiaries who spoke with Lagos Panorama, Ida Eucharia, a tailor, said the grants was timely as she had already exhausted her tailoring materials and she doesn’t have fund to buy stock.
She appreciated the Chairman “I really want to thank God for Hon Dotun OLakanle, for his support with the grant, may God continue to empower him, God will continue to take care of him and his family, he will continue to meet him at the point of his need” she prayed.
Head of Department, Women and Poverty Alleviation (WAPA) Olayemi Sherifat-Olaide, while speaking with Lagos Panorama alluded that “according to the agenda of the Council Chairman Onigbongbo LCDA, one of his intention was to take care of women and the aged in Onigbongbo LCDA, and today he has been able to accomplish the mission”.
This will not be the last but a continuous empowerment and support for both the small scale business owners, widows and aged persons in the LCDA. I implore the beneficiaries to use the money prudently” she advised.
