Special Report: Over 30 Tricycles, Other Items at MOB’s Mega Empowerment Event are in Ruins

Credit: Newstodayng 

Investigative reports have indicated that over 30 tricycles and others items distributed at the recent Mega Empowerment programme of the Senate Majority Leader and the Senator representing the Ekiti Central Senatorial District of Ekiti State, Michael Opeyemi Bamidele at the New Iyin Ekiti road Pavilion in Ado Ekiti are presently in ruins. 

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The said mega empowerment which was launched by the Senate Majority Leader, Michael Opeyemi Bamidele in Ekiti State has generated controversies, and raised concerns over alleged mismanagement, poor maintenance and ineffective distribution of the empowerment materials.

It would be recalled that the lawmaker, representing Ekiti Central Senatorial District, flagged off the empowerment initiative on April 2, 2025, distributing items reportedly worth billions of naira to thousands of constituents.

The initiative, tagged “Renewed Hope Mega Empowerment for Ekiti Central Senatorial District”, was designed to benefit over 5,000 residents across five local government areas which include: Ijero, Efon, Ekiti West, Ado-Ekiti, and Irepodun/Ifelodun.

Items distributed during the programme included minibuses, motorcycles, tricycles, freezers, ambulances, gas cylinders, cookers, cooking pots, generators, sewing machines, pepper and cassava grinding machines, wheelchairs, hair dryers, makeup boxes, wheelbarrows, cutlasses, hoes, tractors, lawn mowers, land tillers, educational materials, among others.

However, in an investigation conducted by Newstodayng, it was revealed that several of these items were either not properly distributed, two months after the event.

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Findings showed that more than 30 tricycles, as well as some minibuses, were allegedly kept hidden in a muddy environment within the premises of the Textile Office along Bashiri Road in Ado-Ekiti, with equipment surrounded by trucks and heaps of crates in an apparent attempt to hide them.

Some of the tricycles observed by our reporter were found in poor condition with punctured tyres, damaged bodies and signs of prolonged abandonment, raising concerns about whether the intended beneficiaries will ever receive them.