The chairman House Committee on Diaspora, Hon. Tolu AKANDE-SADIPE in a bid to create socio-economic partnerships, is on a drive to meet with corporate bodies and institutions domiciled in Oluyole. Her objective is to build synergies for empowerment and employment for the host communities within Oluyole.

Recently she met with the Executive Director, Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN) Dr. Olayiwola Olubamiwa. She also the visited the Globus Farm Onigambari, a member company of the Triton Group.

During the meeting at CRIN she discussed how her constituency could leverage on the prescence of CRIN in Oluyole to deepen the impact on her constituents. The visit was a great opportunity to better understand the medicinal value of Cocoa and the various product inventions at CRIN. Two Agropreneurship Empowerment scheme partnership opportunities for the benefit of the constituents was proposed.

At Globus Hon. Akande-Sadipe was received by Colonel Rajiv and other members of the management, who took time to give a summary of the company’s activities at Gambari Forest Reserve. The company currently employs about a thousand employees from the host community. To further enhance this relationship, a training and empowerment program for youths in aquaculture and poultry farming was tabled. During the visit she was given a tour of the farm, the fish ponds, the poultry area, the cashew plantation, and the reforestation zones with several kilometers of newly planted teak trees.

The meetings pointed at the immense potential of her proposed strategy, which will be unveiled in the very near future.

Recent moves by Hon. Sadipe has been begging the question has to what the past Rep has been doing for the Oluyole.