JUST IN: Governor’s Wife Distributes Solar Systems To Power 300 Houses

The wife of the Ondo State Governor, Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, has inaugurated the distribution of solar gadgets to rural women across the 18 local governments areas of the state.

It was gathered that no fewer than 300 rural women benefitted from the gesture while the initiative was powered by the BeMore Empowered Initiative in collaboration with the office of the First Lady, and it was conceived during the 2021 edition of the BeMore Summer Bootcamp where 400 school girls were given the solar system to power their houses.

At the distribution of the gadgets at the Government House ground, Alagbaka Akure, the state capital, on Wednesday, Akeredolu said 300 women were given out of the targeted 1,000.

She said, “The first phase of the exercise had a large number of beneficiaries from the riverine area of Ondo State, due to the fact that they are mostly affected by darkness as a result of lack of access to the national grid.

“Now we have a technology that is at our fingertips, a technology you can use to harness sunlight that is free all year-round, renewable, and inexhaustible.

“As rightly said, our target is 1000 homes; already we have lit up 400 homes through our BeMore girls, then, this 300 will be for our women in OSOPADEC (Ondo State Oil Producing Area Development Commission) area and women that are lucky to win raffle draw at the FOWOSO summit”.

She urged the beneficiaries to engage trained BeMore girls in their areas for the installation of the solar system with a consultancy fee, which they would be saving for their university education.

Earlier in his welcome address, the Coordinator of BeMore Empowered Foundation, Bassey Obeten, explained that the initiative was geared towards empowering rural women in terms of giving them access to stable light, since they couldn’t afford generator set and also reducing the hazards of using the generator.

According to him, with this official inauguration and the BeMore girls’ portions, the Ondo State First Lady had lighted 700 homes within a year, adding that the gesture would reach 1,000.