Rukiyat Ogunwade
The Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council in Osun State, Hon. Wale Adebayo has congratulated the Muslim Umma, especially in the state for witnessing another Holy Month of Ramadhan for the year 2023.
He enjoined Muslim Umma to use the Holy Month to rededicate their faith and closeness to Almighty Allah by following the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed, Peace be unto him. He also called on Muslims to devote more time to acts of charity.
Adebayo was speaking in Odo Otin at a training and empowerment programme he facilitated for youths in the community on Thursday.
According to him, the president’s training exposed the beneficiaries to modern fish and animal farming techniques, as part of his contribution to eradicating unemployment from the state.
He said the programme was aimed at equipping participants with technical skills in fish farming and animal husbandry; developing productive capacity for wealth creation as well as giving them the opportunity of becoming exporters.
” If you give a man fish; you have just given a single meal, but if you train him in how to fish, he will eat throughout his life”
Adebayo expressed his commitment to continue to do the needful for his people within the limits of his resources. He added that each of the beneficiaries had been empowered with working tools to enable them to start their fishery business.
The beneficiaries were given fingerlings, a mobile fish pond and other necessary materials needed to breed the fingerlings to the maturity stage.
Sixty beneficiaries were drawn from each local government within the state, with a start-up capital of N25,000 participants.
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