As part of his effort to conquer poverty, boost job creation and ensure continuous human capacity development and quality representation for the people of Osun West Senatorial District, Senator Adelere Oriolowo has facilitated a 4-day vocational training for Practical Skill Development and Training of Youths and Women on Fish Farming In Osun West Senatorial District.
The training which was held at King’s Riverside Event Centre, Iwo, Osun state was in two batches.
Resource persons from the Federal College of Fishery and Marine Technology(FCFMT) trained the first batch of participants from Saturday Sept 19 to Sunday Sept 20 while experts from the National Institute For Oceanography and Marine Research (NIMOR) trained the second batch of participants from Monday Sept 21 to Tuesday Sept 22 on how to start fish farming and be successful in it.
Senator Oriolowo, who heads the Senate Committee on Legislative Compliance told the participants that the training was facilitated in his bid to ensure youths of the Senatorial District are self employed through productive entrepreneur skills.
“I believe in sustainable empowerment rather than consumable empowerment, and that informs the reason why I’m organizing this training as part of my constituency project,” Oriolowo said.
Senator Oriolowo said the training is also gears towards promoting entrepreneurship in the senatorial district, creating wealth and boosting job creation in the society and as well as to complement the developmental strides of Governor Gboyega Oyetola in the state.
Participants were picked from the ten local government areas that make up Osun West Senatorial District: Iwo, Aiyedire, Olaoluwa, Irewole, Isokan, Ayedaade, Ede North, Ede South, Ejigbo and Egbedore.
Certificate of participation were issued at the end of the programme, with a take-off grant worth N50,000 given to each participant.
The participants expressed their happiness to the Senator for facilitating such a life enriching programme for them and promised to make the best use of the knowledge derived from the training programme.