Kwara Government in partnership with Dangote Foundation is set to disburse N150 million grant to 15,000 rural women in Kwara.

Mr Kayode Oyin-Zubair, the Senior Special Assistant on Community Intervention to Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq made this known on Tuesday in Ilorin when he paid a courtesy visit on members of the Correspondents Chapel of Kwara NUJ.

Oyin-Zubair said that each beneficiary would get N10, 000 before the end of 2020.

The governor’s aide said that development programmes of the present administration in the state would be community driven.

According to him, this is because the government believes development should be a bottom-to-top approach.

“The three cardinal areas of intervention are people, place and prosperity.

“Everything about development should come from the bottom to top and not the other way round. It is a principle that the present administration believes in.

“This is to avoid congestion of urban area and hasten development at the grassroots,” he said.

Oyin-Zubair said that his office had in few months of his appointment sensitised community development officers at the local government areas in the state to serve as machinery for driving this development.

According to him, the office has also sensitised community development associations in the state on self-help efforts.

“These interactions with stakeholders are to demonstrate that government really has something to do with them,” he said.

He said that the state was also talking to Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN) on hybrid locust bean that would be produced within seven years to further empower and make life comfortable for rural women.

He said that the state would soon begin exportation of locust beans to Kenya based on the ongoing agreement with a firm in the East African country.

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