The importance of developing mankind essential needs and wants is
anchored on bringing self sufficiency to those who are willing to conform to a
desirable change, bring the society to a functional and
epoch making event, and also helping them self to be sustainable in terms of
developing life's sustaining abilities through those initiative that truly gives
birth to reality of transforming human lives into opportunities instead of allowing
it wallow away, killing productive generation from one decade to the order.
Last week , Barr Coker, a
lawyer brought an idea turns reality in form of community empowerment programme
to the people of Ojo community to share her own way of empowering the needy
especially those vulnerable who are in need of what ever form of upliftment
within their community.
A comatose that one can describe as ‘’political economy
unwarranted situation and the challenge of leadership’’ top our failings as a
government as well as to the promise tomorrow holds if we begin to do the right
things. But in a rare public and self introspection, Barr Coker proved to many
in Ojo community that self help remain on thing we must truly give to our selfs
having quality leaders to drive such seat through excellent coordination’s that
can yield fruits for larger proportions of crowed to have access to it and be
sufficient. An event which took place precisely in okokomaiko in time of
training and graduation was overwhelming in terms of accolades and positive
comments.
On a personal not, I also had an encounter with Barr Coker over
what she considers as self help that gave birth to the initiative that turned
out to be a success story today that ushered in about three hundred Artisans
graduates in Auto cad, desk top publishing and computer engineering. Even
though the chairman of the occasion, Engr peter kolawole played the
role of given accolades, the overwhelming spirits of dexterity displayed by the
initiator though put the chairman’s thoughts away from his real
function of that event.
In the widest dream of that
gentle man, it has never come to his consciousness that we still have people
who are greatly touched with the challenges of our political economy that is
ravaging and escalating the levels of unemployment facing our society today.
Back to the event. Shortly before Dr Adavtse took to the stage as the master
of ceremony, the comedian ‘’melody for comedy’’ gave a commanding
performance in which he weaved the compelling history of
the community through laughter and jokes into a tapestry of the African
heritage ending it with lyrics that there are categories of people, Places and
cultures. In people, we have different type in terms of status and values, in
places he said we have various locations that can be best describe where we
belong in life of whether poor or rich whilst our culture has remain never
in-doubt of what ever we do as equality remains the in thing. That perhaps set
the note for the event in which the master of ceremony Dr Adavtse was also at
his best. He even poked fun at the expense of one of the representatives of the
Arewa community in Alaba whom he described as commander of the Arewa in Lagos.
Then come the big moment
when the grandaunts are ushered in to take their seats following the
introduction by master of the ceremony. Laying a foundation for her
intervention, Barr Coker described herself as an incurable optimist who always
viewed any half-filled glass as half full rather than empty. And because of
that disposition to life, despite the current gloom and doom that pervade the
poverty index of the country with trickle down effects on her community and
environment, she remains upbeat that the whole Ojo community would be
sustainable with these initiative that is bill to empower the youth especially
where the youth would come out bigger, stronger as was the case in the past.
This optimism, Coker
argued, was founded on the familiar sequence of doing it your self with her
Bace-p initiatives that has in the past four years remain one unique concept of
sustaining the poor and the needy that are willing to be productive and the
boom and bust they have always engendered. She sees a consistent pattern in the
whole idea where it would be followed with a period of prosperity. Hon oluyomi
Coker traced how many of the youths visits her office on several occasions
asking for various kind of assistance which push out the idea that has tuned
success into realization of self independent of the youth in Ojo local
government. Using the advancement of technology to illustrate how the world has
changed so dramatically in the last two decades- to the extent that it
has broken the monopoly of information by every means possible where through
his empowerment initiatives, they were able to actualize basic understanding of
empowering the youths with Auto cad design, desk top publishing and computer
engineering.
According to Coker,
building enduring political institution is critical to challenge she said the
idea of relying on ‘’good people’’ in what is usually referred to as benevolent
dictatorship could be perilous. Coker said she one argues with some people
about it and her summation was what ever is worth doing at all is worth doing
well indeed. Given the unpredictability of our leaders, she would rather
recommend strong institutions that guarantees rule of law. In advancing
argument for representative government run on dividend of democracy Coker
contended that government and the leaders must always see their selfs as
selfless, and be ready to be accountable to the people always. Coker can see
the rise of human talents across the local government but she admonished; we
must first begin to invest in our people that are by investing in empowerment
such as this. Don’t invest in consumption today at the expense of the youth of
tomorrow, don’t subsidies the present to compromise the future’’. With the
presentation done, the master of ceremony, Dr Adavtse invited to the podium Hon
olu olaleye and Hon oluyomi Coker the peoples Democratic Party’s candidate for
house of representative, state house of Assembly in ojo local government
respectively.
Their task was simply to present a plaque to those who merited its
award to be given, Engr peter kolawole the chairman of the event was given an
award on excellence with support on development, thanked that the
initiator of the bace-p empowerment programme in person
of hon. Coker when he said’’ I want to thank you for
making us to know what we should have known in this local government
we have all we need to make the progress that we should nail but
when we have people like you to ginger us, it helps so that where we are
dormant, we will wake up. That for me was some remarkable event of reality
but as I reflected on Barr Coker’s empowerment initiative, I cannot
but wonder if some of our political leaders would stop doing stupid things’’ it
is instructive that at about the same time the event was
going on in ojo , some people are going all out to give a dog a bad
name for it to be hanged. Is it that some people don’t just like good
initiative of this kind?
Well from my reflections, I
do understand that those one cup of rice some people usually get as incentive
and basis for casting their vote for that particular individual had beclouded
their right thinking senses, and subsequently, they will never want anything of
good that will jeopardize their own gain as against the larger
proportion of the populace. I also wonder whether we have stopped doing’’
stupid things ‘’ when our grass root administrators in that region are
now busy not developing the human potentials in
their jurisdiction but rather searching for some
imaginary thing that give personal interest? Well, to borrow a colloquial
expression, hon. oluyomi Coker has done its own but we must commend her and the
management of Barr Coker’s empowerment programme [bace-p] for
what was a most eventful initiative and a most enjoyable moment.
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