The member representing Ede North, Ede South, Egbedore, and Ejigbo Federal Constituency of Osun State, Hon Bamidele Salam has said the Constitutional role of lawmakers at the National Assembly is to formulate law and facilitate programmes that will have positive impact on the constituents.
Salam disclosed this on Thursday the 2024 BS-E4 business and leadership bootcamp organized for 400 graduates and entrepreneurs of his constituents held in Osogbo, Osun state capital.
The BS-E4 business and leadership bootcamp 2024 was tagged Operation 400 New Businesses with the theme Accssing Local and Global Opportunities for Growth.
The lawmaker said he facilitated human capital training for the youths of his constituency to expose them to different opportunities within the public and private sectors to grow their businesses.
He further said that the programme will provide opportunity to bridge the gap between various government agencies that have products and services that can leverage on participants.
He noted that all invited people are highly experienced and core professionals in various businesses who have the right information and right channels that would assist the beneficiaries in the business.
He said: “We believe that those who are here today in the next one year or two, three years we also have stories to tell about something they have learned, heard, or saw that transformed their lives.
“The programme is meant to develop human capital to build up people in the manner that make them live purposeful lives, we have also provided them the opportunity to see opportunities. We are providing them opportunities to be aware of the available opportunity.
“There are many things that are happening within the public and private sectors that we need our young people to know about and able to key into them.
“We also use this opportunity to bridge the gap between various government agencies that have products and services which our people in the Federal Constituency can leverage on, the Cooperate Affairs Commission, Bank of Industries, Bank of Agric and so many organizations that have a lot of products that they developed to help young entrepreneurs. Bring them together in a programme like this will offer them the opportunity to hear it as first hand information from organizations and also key into the opportunity available to start and to grow their various businesses.
“The work of the National Assembly is to make laws, we are the ones that make the laws that established all of the organizations, Nigerian External Promotion Council, Bank of Agriculture are all products of the law but it’s one thing to make those laws, established all those agencies by law is another thing for the people to key into what is available.
“Part of what we are elected to do is to make law and also to facilitate programmes like this that bring people to aware of those things they can do.
“The National Assembly is to make law and make the information available for our constituents on what has been made, what structure has been put in place that people can tap from.” he said.
One of the resources persons, the former Chief Whip, Osun State House of Assembly, Tunde Olatunji charged the Nigerians to develop value chain of the agriculture in order to create more job opportunities.
Olatunji said, the country is blessed in terms of resources particularly the land, saying “what all we need to do is to ensure we work on getting young men back to farm. We must be intentional about it, there must be incentive that will attract young generation.
“We must also begin to let them know the wealth existence farming.
“Today, we talked about high cost of food items in the market. We must know that production is a key for us to bring down the cost of food and that alone there is whole a lot of opportunities there one of the major areas that we have to develop is chain of the agriculture, we should not just fix on the production of agriculture product and items.
“We must begin to look on how do we add value, how do we develop value chain you so we can create more jobs.” he added
