By Ganiyat Mumuni and Mariam Ololade
The Chairman of Itire Ikate Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Dr Ahmed Apatira, has empowered 60 female youths with Keke Marwa (tricycles) under a scheme tagged Apatira Queens Ride.
This, he said, was part of the council’s poverty alleviation intervention for the community.
The programme, according to the chairman, was in two phases, which required 30 eligible participants each, to apply for the first and second batches ranging from 18 to 40 years.
He said: “I reached out to various elders and leaders in the community, the leaders of each political party before coming about the numbers of beneficiaries for this training.”
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He advised the beneficiaries to make good use of the opportunity given to them in making decent use of the tricycles.
Head of Department, Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (WAPA), Oluwatoyin Onanubi, commended the chairman for bringing in TVS Company to train youths on how to ride, maintain and repair tricycles.
Onanubi added that the intervention would help alleviate poverty amongst women in the community and as well break bias of gender disparity.
She urged beneficiaries to make judicious use of the opportunity for themselves, their family members and to the nation at large.
A beneficiary, Rukayat Lasisi, lauded the council chief’s initiative for the opportunity given considering women as important figures in the society.
Another beneficiary, Buelah Dickson, commended the work and everyone in support of the programme.