The Chairman, Agbado Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Dr Augustine Arogundade says the council has begun disbursing N1 million monthly for the empowerment of its people at the grassroots.
Arogundade told Community Bell last Tuesday that each beneficiary would receive N100,000 monthly.
“The LCDA has increased the budgetary allocation of the Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Department to sustain the empowerment programme for the needy every month.
“We now give N1 million to 10 people every month at the rate of N100,000 each for empowerment and skill acquisitions.
“The beneficiaries are selected from the seven wards in the LCDA by the ward chairmen and councillors of communities within the wards,’’ he said.
According to the chairman, majority of the beneficiaries use the money to establish small scale businesses or to acquire skills.
Arogundade said that many people who received the N100, 000 grant from the LCDA already knew the businesses they could set up to enhance living standards as the LCDA allows the people close to the grassroots to identify the needy to enable the grant reach those who need it.
“We do it in such a way that the beneficiaries are mainly those who are in need of the capital, at least to empower them and sustain their daily incomes and expenses,’’ he added.
The chairman said that the council was ready to give more dividends of democracy to the people at the grassroots.
“Ours is an elected administration; so, it is compulsory that the welfare of our people must be our priority and providing the dividends of democracy to them is our ultimate goal,’’ he said.
He said that the provision of more link roads, education and community health facilities would be the council’s priorities in 2020.
