Former Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has over the weekend made first official public appearance to launch online thrift-for-charity initiative years after resignation from office.
It would be recalled that Adeosun resigned as minister in 2018 over the case of a forged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate she presented as part of her credentials.
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In July of 2018, a report by a National daily claimed she never partook in the mandatory one-year scheme, which is a prerequisite to take a government portfolio.
Following her resignation, Adeosun maintained a low profile after the incident — until the inauguration of the outfit where she made her first official public appearance.
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Adeosun explained in her resignation letter that the investigation was true, but said she did not know the certificate was forged as she relied on associates who helped obtain it after she returned from the UK.
The former minister expressed her gratitude for the honour to serve her country, after which she traveled out of the country.
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Over the weekend, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo launched Dash Me Store, an outfit of Dash Me Foundation founded by the immediate past Minister of Finance.
The store is established to mobilise resources for onward distribution to vulnerable people in the society via grassroots charities.
During the opening ceremony on Sunday, Vice President who graced the event said;
I am excited to be here for several reasons, but most of all because of Mrs Adeosun’s commitment to the notion that all service to man is actually service to God, and she took that very seriously.
This is why, as Minister, she prioritized the Social Investment Programmes, when for the first time, the country voted almost N500B of our annual budget to welfare programmes which are called the Social Investment Programmes, which involved engaging 500,000 young men and women and also giving microcredit to about 2 million traders and also a home-grown school feeding programme for 9.5 million children daily in public schools across the country.
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He added;
I am therefore really not surprised that she has decided to use some of her enormous talent and influence to establish an organization that raises funds and provides resources for indigenous grassroots charities working with orphaned and vulnerable children, disadvantaged youth, and victims of domestic violence.
In her response, Kemi Adeosun said the idea of the store is to aggregate donations of different kinds for charitable causes, noting that Nigerians from different fields of endeavour and from across the country would be enabled via the online store to contribute to supporting the needy in the society.
She expressed that the organisation would work closely with charitable organisations in the grassroots to ensure that funds and other materials donated via Dash Me Store get to actual beneficiaries.
See some photos from the event below;
