Osun Pioneer SSG Family Fund Empowers Widows With N30m

Within 15 years of its existence, the Modupe Oreoluwa Aboaba Widows’ Assistance Fund has disbursed a sum of N30m as interest free loans to different categories of widows in Igbajo community  Boluwaduro Local Government Area of Osun State, to make life meaningful for them.

The Chairman, Board of Trustees, Modupe Oreoluwa Aboaba Widows’ Assistance Fund, Engr. Akin Rotimi dropped this hint at an event organised to mark the 15th edition of the annual disbursement of the interest free loan to widows and the 20th remembrance of the death of the matriach of Aboaba dynasty.

Chief (Mrs.) Modupe Oreoluwa Aboaba, was the wife of pioneer Secretary to Government of Osun and Head of Service, Chief Moses Inaolaji Aboaba.

The event which was held at the First Baptist Church, Igbajo also saw the Fund committee disbursing the sum of N1,530,000 to 66 deserving widows as interest free loans.

According to Engr. Akin Rotimi, the Widows’ Assistance Programme which started in 2004 to immortalise the deceased, commenced with just nine beneficiaries, but has grown into a bigger umbrella through which many lives have been touched.

While thanking the visioner, Chief Inaolaji Aboaba, his children and other donors for their commitment to the scheme, the Chairman, Board of Trustees, Oreoluwa encouraged beneficiaries to always pay back the loans as and when due, so that many other widows can also benefit from the scheme.

Earlier in his address at the event, Chief Aboaba explained that the scheme has been designed to outlive him.

He emphasised that the resolve of the family is to always put smiles on the faces of the downtrodden widows in Igbajo and its environs and promised to stop at nothing in ensuring that the scheme continues to grow in leaps and bounds.

He further encouraged the beneficiaries to always put the money into good use so as to secure a better future for themselves and their children.