Obinrin Owu – making Liquid Soap – at Akinale, during their quarterly meeting hosted by Olori Olanike Ogunleye, as part of their self-sustaing businesses to empower the womenfolk. Oba Olufemi Ogunleye was invited to launch the liquid soap (as seen the picture with the women)
Wives and Daughters of Owu people known as “Obinrin Owu” held their quarterly meeting in Akinale weekend that ends September to deliberate on their work plan to empower the Owu women towards a sustainable socio-economic development in their clime.
Several self-actualisation projects like soap making, fabric design, destoning ofada rice and other subsistent trades, are being freely taught to the women.
Olori Olanike Ogunleye, member Obinrin Owu who hosted the meeting admonished the women to emulate the Owu heroines like Efunsetan Aniwura in Ibadan and Efunroye Tinubu in Abeokuta who fought for freedom and emancipation of their womenfolk and the Yoruba nation.
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“No better time than now, when Owu women should rally round the new Olowu in Abeokuta, Oba Professor Saka Adelola Matemilola, to reinvent and sustain the culture and heritage of Owu people as a driving force for social economic development of Owu kingdom” Olori Ogunleye maintained.
He further charged them as mothers to watch over their wards and protect them against the current trend of child abuse and human trafficking in the society, adding that all hands must be on deck to nib the crime in the bud with mothers making themselves to be well educated on the modus operandi of the traffickers and what motivates the crime.
The President of the women, Faderera of Owu Kingdom, Chief Mrs Jolaoluwa Opaleye commended the Obinrin Owu for their dedication to improve the life of the society.
Picture shows Oba Dr Olufemi Ogunleye, Towulade Akinale, surrounded by the President of Obinrin Owu, Faderera Owu Kingdom, Chief Mrs Jolaoluwa Opaleye, Olori Olanike Ogunleye and Olori Onipapa
