Seun Shotunde, Abeokuta
All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate for the August 16 Remo Federal Constituency by-election in Ogun State, Princess Adesola Elegbeji, says she will embark on rural electrification project to boost power supply for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises(SMEs) in the region.
Elegbeji, who equally promised to consider the use of Solar energy as alternative source of power to complement her rural electrification project, said that with electricity small business owners especially women would be able to operate their ventures smoothly and improve their living conditions.
She spoke at the Monthly Guest Forum on Thursday organized by Nigeria Union of Journalists(NUJ) Ogun State Chapter in company of the the Chairman of Abeokuta North Local and Area and other party’s supporters from Remo constituency.
Elegbeji noted that she would partner with micro finance bank to grant loans to the SMEs operators and also engage them in skills training to enhance their businesses in order to cushion the effects of economic hardship occasioned by removal of subsidy on their livelihoods.
She said “We will do more rural electrification project to empower market women, and also put in place alternative energy. We will continue the Solar Kiosks for empower our women and If we empower our women we empower the nation. The women empower projects will be around Small and Medium Scale Enterprises.”
“There is a lot of our women who do petty tradings and a lot of them don’t have a lot of capital so we will give them grants and this grants will be tied to training and also backs by micro finance bank, when we trained them in professional skills we give them the grants to get started” She added.
