About N1.5 million has been spent on the provision of empowerment tools to community members in Remo North Local Government Area of Ogun State by the present administration in the council, just as the beneficiaries of the empowerment tools were mandated to ensure proper handling and maintenance of the tools to justify the huge investment on the project.Distributing the grinding machines, sewing machines, dryers, motorcycles, among others, at the Sabo-Motor park, Isara Remo, the headquarters of the council area.The transition committee chairman, Mr Adebiyi Adeleye, noted that the special empowerment programme would reduce poverty in all the communities across the council area.The local government boss added that the present administration would leave no stone unturned, saying 'all the people in this local govbernment will have their own share in the distribution of the dividends of democracy. As we promised during the campaign of our party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the major objective of this present administration is to alleviate the poverty level of the people through provision of skills acquisition programmes that will make the people self-reliant.'He said that it was the desire of his administration in the council area to make the people in less dependent on the government, but rather, train them to seek economic freedom for themselves so as to be able to survive economically and allow the government to expend its energy and resources on the provision of social services rather than payment of salaries.Adeleye said that the empowerment scheme, as it was being conceived, would lay a solid foundation for economic freedom of the community members and acknowledged the patriotic and revolutionary steps already taken by the state governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, in rebuilding the mission of the state, most especially, the proactive steps taken in addressing the decayed socio-infrastructural facilities in all the nooks and crannies of the state.'Most of our people have been drawn to live under the poverty line because they believe that government was established to provide jobs. There is also the general belief that the viability of the private sector is a matter of government responsibility in such area as the promotion of their establishment,' he said.He, however, regretted that the present educational system in the country has no concern for the development of human resourcess but favoured white-collar job-seekers.He said, 'the reality of today, however, is that government cannot solely fulfil this primary role due to the increasing number of dependants for monthly payment of salaries and allowances and reduced material resources for the well-being of the citizens.'The distribution of empowerment tools was witnessed by traditional rulers in all the communities in the council area, community leaders, students, traders, farmers, artisans and the representative of the state governor, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftain Matters, Prince Ade Adesanya and the Special Adviser on Political Matters, Tunde Sanusi, among others.
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