A member of House of Representatives, representing Etsako Federal Constituency in Edo, Mr Johnson Oghuma, a has trained 230 persons through various skill acquisition programmes.
He told reporters on Wednesday in Benin that the training programmes were handled by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) and some other private organisations.
He said the training was part of his responsibility to members of his constituency.
According to him, the training programmes included provision of materials and financial support at the completion of the training programmes.
He said his decision to embark on the programme was to give lasting dividends of democracy to members of his constituency.
“I reasoned that teaching my people how to fish will be more beneficial than giving them the fish.
“They are the reason for my being where I am; their interest and well being are of great concern to me,’’he said.
He said that more people would be trained on various skills in the next phase of the programme.
Oghuma said his desire to make his constituents enjoy the dividends of democracy necessitated the provision of some vital projects to the constituency.
Some of such projects, he said, ranged from water projects, construction of classroom blocks and rural electricity projects in various communities in the federal constituency.
“All this I have done in less than a year in office as member of the House of Green Chamber,” he said.