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Hon. Seyi Adisa, has facilitated a financial empowerment programme for traders and owners of micro small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in his constituency.
This is coming up lweeks after his inauguration into the office.
This financial aid is said to be up to the tune of ₦5,000,000, and according to Adisa, “the fund is aimed at empowering the traders and their businesses to grow and explore bigger enterprise opportunities, which will ultimately improve both the economic wellbeing and prospects of AFIJIO”.
A result of a partnership between the Adisa’s team and 7|Eleven Empowerment Cooperative Investment and Credit Society and also SEAP microfinance bank, the fund is to be disbursed in about four phases. A total of one hundred (100) business owners and traders are said to benefit from the first phase that will see ₦2.5 million disbursed.
In addition to his legislative duties to the state, Adisa has been seen to repeatedly go on record about his pursuit of a brand of politics that is people-based, a type according to him, “a type that deploys political will to chase development at all fronts, and facilitating partnerships like this one is a result of this mandate”, Adisa submits.
The cheque presentation is expected to come up at an event scheduled for the constituency office in Awe on Wednesday, the 10th of July, 2019, a date which marks and doubles as his first full month in office after the official swearing-in.
