The member representing Akure South constituency 1 in the Ondo State House of Assembly, Hon. Simeon Toluwani Borokini, on Tuesday empowered widows in his constituency with some cash, saying the gesture is one of his numerous efforts at putting smiles on the faces of his less privileged constituents in the state.
The event, which took place at his constituency office in Alagbaka, Akure had in attendance several widows selected from wards in Akure South constituency 1.
Borokini, who is the Whip of the Ondo State House Of Assembly, maintained that such was not the first time he would be carrying out widows empowerment as he was used to it before even venturing into politics.”
The lawmaker said, “there is a culture in our church to empower widows every year. Later on, my mother made it a project; Give widows support fund, for a certain number of widows in four local governments, Akure South, Akure North, Idanre and Ifedore, which comprises of the scopal territory of my father. And when I started having the financial strength to support the project, I started to donate a certain amount for certain widows”.
“This will be the fourth time that I’ll be doing widows empowerment since I became an honourable member. During the Covid-19 Pandemic (lockdown), I gave about two hundred and eighty widows palliative support and we have been reaching out to widows regularly, we decided to look inwards to members of our party, All Progressives Congress (APC) to concentrate more on them this time around”.
While pledging to continue with the empowerments, he encouraged the widows to keep the faith, trust God for the best, “they should also find dignity in their labour, business or anything they do, they should not feel less than others who are not in their situation, they should take life’s event at a time and invest in their children.”
Some of the benefitting widows who couldn’t hide their joy thanked Hon. Borokini for his good deeds, praying God to lift him higher and also raise people who will emulate his kind gestures.
FREE JAMB FORMS FOR STUDENTS IN MY CONSTITUENCY —Borokini
Hon Toluwani Simeon Borokini also made known some of his numerous impacts on his constituents in Akure South Constituency 1 in Ondo State since his assumption of office as a honourable member.
While speaking with journalists in his office during the free JAMB registration of eligible students in his constituency, Hon. Borokini pointed out that he is resolute in his bid to make indelible impacts in the lives of his people.
He noted that the free JAMB forms powered through The Toluwani Borokini Foundation, as part of his efforts to complement the Education Strides of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu who paid over N500 million for the WAEC fees of Ondo State students.
In his words, “As the Chairman House Committee on Education, I am privy to the huge contributions of Mr. Governor towards sustainable education and even the recently paid WAEC fees of Ondo State Students and in our own little way, we have to support this noble idea, this is the rationale behind the free JAMB forms.
“We have had education support for secondary School Students and students in tertiary institutions and which I’m still responsible for their education sponsorship till date.
In the same way, we’ve had empowerment programmes and welfare packages for widows, single mothers, less privileged amongst others. I’ve facilitated employment of people into many government agencies and parastatals as well as Community Projects like reparation of boreholes, Grading of roads amongst other facilitated projects.”
Also as part of his contributions, he organized free goggle training for over 11 secondary schools in Akure where 1500 students participated. This he said will make them fit into the evolving digital world.
“We had summer Lesson, goggle training for 1500 students, skill acquisition on (ICT, leather work, tailoring for Male and Female and Make-up, Fishery and Other Classes.
“During Covid-19 pandemic we rolled out welfarism package for constituents and under my committee leadership many laws have been passed and I still have a good number of personal bills that I am working on.
Presently I have an ongoing borehole project at the Oke Ijebu Sawmill alongside building of Public Toilets in the same location and another batch of empowerment programme will come up any moment from now.
