[i] Team Leader, DFID [i/]
This empowerment plan was made known
at the signing of a Memorandum of
Understanding between both parties, at the
governor’s office in Osogbo, the capital of
the state.
The leader of the team, David Joyner, said
the scheme under the Growth and
Empowerment in States (GEMS) arm of the
DFID is aimed at providing jobs, creating
wealth and in turn eradicating poverty.
He says the programme will also facilitate
better connection between small and
medium enterprises.
To achieve this, he said the public sectors’
Ministry of Industry and Ministry of
Agriculture would be in full partnership.
Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola,
added that the collaboration between the
state and the subsidiary agency of DFID is
a veritable framework for development of
small scale business enterprises to create
wealth and banish poverty in the state.
[i] Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola [/i]
According to him, “it is not for lack of
opportunities that we are poor, but our
inability to creatively engage our people”.
He therefore asserted that human
development was what Nigeria must do to
help its people out of the current economic
recession.
The scheme is targeted towards
empowering soap makers, livestock
rearers, local plantain chip makers and
traditional mat weavers among others.
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