By Dare Akogun
This was contained in a statement signed by the Press Secretary of the group Saeed Tijjani and copies made available to newsmen today in Ilorin saying that the foundation has committed a part payment of ₦10 million to ENetSuD as the first tranche of the project sum.
While signing the MoU today the Founder of the Foundation, Waziri Yakubu Gobir commended ENetSuD for its unrelenting efforts in sensitizing and educating the citizens about good governance.
According to him “Your advocacy, project facilitation to rural dwellers, agility in following Kwara Money, and ensuring that it works for all can never be underrated, and I urge you all to keep it up.
“Though the support our Foundation is rendering to ENetSuD might be little, we are certain that it will bring succor to the communities across Kwara state.
“Our partnership with ENetSuD on the CEMP activities will bring about social change, create an avenue to do more for the people, produce working documents to aid governmental policies and stakeholders’ interventions, and facilitate international donors to ENetSuD to strengthen its activities” , he said.
In her remarks ENetSuD’s Acting Director of Community Services whose Directorate oversees the CEMP activities, Fatima Bintu Dikko, appreciated the Gobir Foundation for finding ENetSuD worthy of such a huge intervention while assuring that the team will do all the possible best to make the collaboration successful.
She also said that the kind gesture and intervention are coming at a time when many communities need support most, adding that with little resources, ENETSUD has been able to facilitate basic amenities to community like Aroyehun, Banigbe, Keremi, Amolegbe, among others, through the help of philanthropists in Kwara state.
The Chairman of the ENetSuD App Committee, Saeed Tijjani on his part, highlighted grey areas on how ENetSuD is doing its best to digitalize all activities right from inception which birthed the launching of its first Mobile App.
The App will enable citizens to facilitate projects to their localities, raise advocacy and petitions and as well enable them to connect to their representatives. We’re going to make it part of our duty to train the citizens across the 193 wards in Kwara State on how to use the App, he added.
ENetSuD Deputy Coordinator, Comrade Lanre Osho, lauded the unprecedented gestures displayed by the Gobir Foundation.
“Gobir Foundation has always been there for ENetSuD, especially in the aspect of continued sponsorship of Ìmójútó Owó Ará Ìlú program on Sobi FM 101.9 that has been ongoing for over 2 years (since February 2020)’,” he said
He appreciated the Foundation’s gesture to ENetSuD and prayed to God to increase the capacity of the Founder to keep doing more good things.
The ENetSuD’s Director of Finance, Rasheed Okunlola, assured the the foundation that the team will use the funds effectively and for the purpose it was meant for with proper documentation and accountability.
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