In its unwavering efforts to reduce redundancy and restiveness among the youth, the Ijesaland Community Development Assembly, in partnership with RLG Ilesa, trained 120 individuals on computer, phone and other electronic assemblage and repair.
The RLG-ICDA’s empowerment programme was one of the development and social programmes by the Asiwaju Yinka Fasuyi; the Asiwaju of Ijesaland led the Ijesaland Community Development Assembly’s initiative to reduce poverty and get the youths off the streets.
Speaking during the flag-off ceremony of the three-month training exercise at the Adulawo Technology City, Ilesa Akure motorway, the corporate office of RLG Institute of Technology, Asiwaju Yinka Fasuyi encouraged the beneficiaries to maximise the opportunities embedded in the programme to better their lives and add value to the society.
Alagba Wale Idowu presented all the successfully executed projects initiated by the ICDA, such as unity amongst communities and Traditional institutions in Ijesaland; Construction of Ultra-modern Owa Obokun Adimula Palace in nine months after two previous failed attempts; Construction and delivery of the Community-driven NIBillion Naira Second Geriatric Centre in Nigeria, the Ijesaland Geriatric Centre; Facilitating the upgrading of the Osun State College of Education Ilesa to a full-fledged University of Ilesa; Institution of Scholarship awards for over 400 Ijesa Students at Federal Science and Technical College; Institution of Health Insurance Scheme for Ijesa Elderlies where 3,000 beneficiaries are currently enjoying on annual basis; Establishment of ICDA-LEVENTIS FOUNDATION NIGERIA PARTNERSHIP where only Ijesa Youths are currently being trained in agripreneurship for a duration of one year with counterpart fund fully paid by the ICDA to Leventist Foundation Nigeria; Establishment of Good Governance, Transparency, Accountability, and Results-Based Administration with the institution and Inauguration of Ijesaland Independent Development Monitors IIDM; Establishment of the novel all-inclusive, participatory, demand-driven Development Model called Ijesa Development Fund IDF to facilitate all year round development in all our six LGAs in Ijesaland; amongst others.
Asiwaju Fasuyi, in his speech delivered by Alagba Wale Idowu, the former Director General of OSBC, noted that the idea of empowering the youths was born out of the ICDA’s passion for impacting the social, educational, economic, health and cultural lives of the society.
He stressed that the society has made provision for a 10,000 naira monthly stipend for each trainee to subsidise their cost of transportation during the programme and 100,000 naira for each of them at the end of the training in addition to providing tools of trade for them.
A member of ICDA, Reverend Lowo Adebiyi, expressed concern over the cold attitude of some Ijesa youths to many employment programmes sponsored by the society and other individuals, saying the increasing engagement of the productive population in street begging is quite alarming.
Elder Adebiyi, however, tasked the beneficiaries on discipline, stating that reports from the Federal School of Science and Technology, Ilesa, about the students of Ijesa descent who are on ICDAs scholarship are heart-breaking.
In a remark, the manager, RLG, Mr Rosin Ilesanmi, advised the trainees to abide by the rules of engagement and warned them against misusing the golden opportunity that comes but once in a lifetime.
Mr Ilesanmi revealed that RLG has been producing TVs and decoders for StarTimes and DStv on request, phones, tablets, desktops and laptops, power banks, key detectors and MP3 devices.
“Our facility is proudly ISO and NITDA certified with a 5000 STB/5000 phones/2500 laptops per day and over 200,000/month device manufacturing capacity. With factory management team support from FOXCONN, RLG-Adulawo has enjoyed over 7 years of manufacturing experience in Africa” he said.
Addressing the trainees, the chairman of RLG Institute of Technology, Alhaji Rasque Animasaun, disclosed that the company has been enjoying patronage from the federal government of Nigeria and multinational companies all over the world, but not from the Osun State government.
According to him, the company had not only added value to the technological revolution of the state but also helped to provide jobs for many of its citizens, hence the need for the state government to be inward-looking to patronise home-grown goods and services for sustainability.
The ICDA members that attended the flag off ceremony were , Reverend Lowo Adebiyi, Chief Olatunbosun, chief Afolabi Igbaroola, Mr Bukola Fadipe , Erelu Jumoke Olafadehan and Mr Wale Idowu .
Credit:Isaac Haastrup
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