OKOBI is about community-based and group-owned businesses. These groups include extended families, villages, communities, etc.
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As trivial as this sounds, it is typical of the unending demands on companies by their host communities, who often see them as the only government they know. Such rampant community requests have come to mischaracterise Corporate Social Responsibility in Nigeria as mainly philanthropy. When the Nobel laureate in economics, Amartya Sen, described poverty as unfreedom, he didn’t mince words. That’s precisely what it is. As such, any genuine act of empowerment should be liberating and free from a permanent cycle of dependency. In other words, the current practice of corporate community relations in Nigeria must genuinely empower the communities it aims to serve.
An example of the OKOBI model in action is the Okpofe Youth Empowerment Scheme Multi-purpose Cooperatives in Ezinihitte Local Government Area of Imo State. The cooperative has about 90 members. Many of them are graduates. Instead of waiting for jobs to be given to them, they created their own jobs. They met with their Eze and the community elders to secure a space to start their agribusiness, comprising poultry, piggery, fishery, and some vegetable farms.
Learning from OKOBI, corporate community relations can focus on igniting or reviving community collective agency. The beauty of the model is that it can be applied in contexts with similar social structures.
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