No fewer than 450 residents of Ifako-Ijaiye
in Ifako/Ijaiye constituency have been admitted into the free information and
communications technology and fashion design training institutes established by
Dayo Saka Fafunmi, the representative of Ifako/Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the
Lagos State House of Assembly DigitalSENSE
Business News gathered.
The beneficiaries, it was learnt will
replace another batch of nearly 500 who are rounding off their training period
at the separate institutes located at the lawmaker's constituency office at
Oyemekun Bus Stop, Ifako/Ijaiye.
Speaking at the matriculation ceremony of
the students, Fafunmi, who is the Chairman of the House Committee on Public
Accounts for Local Government, said about 1 500 beneficiaries had graduated since
2009 when he started the programmes adding that the encouragement to carry on
with the programme comes from the success rate of the beneficiaries in their
various disciplines and the need to reduce unemployment in his constituency.
"You should be a master of your own
heart. The ICT training is one of those programmes that would help you in life.
Education is an equalizer; it would place the rich and the poor at par. Without
education, most of us would not be where we are today. You must ask questions
until you understand what you are being taught. The programme is for three
months, but the last set spent five months because I do not want to graduate
half baked graduates."
Some of the graduating students, who spoke
at the ceremony, thanked Fafunmi for the gesture, while the President of the
Muslim Community in Ifako/Ijaiye, Alhaji Adbudltolib Orire Oyedeji, noted that
Fafunmi was following the path laid out by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo
adding that the lawmaker has also upon ensured free transportation for school
children.
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