The Ogun State government plans to improve the lot of local government workers.
The plan was revealed when the Centre for Management Development(CMD) submitted its report on the Capacity Building, Needs Analysis and Assessment of the 20 local governments in Ogun State.
The project was carried out for the Ogun State Local Government Service Commission(OGLSC) after it was launched last October by the Commission’s Chairman, Alhaji Olatunde Okewole.
CMD conducted a rigorous study on how to develop the capacities of its staff and institutions.
Submitting the report to the OGLSC last week, the CMD’s Director-General, Kabo Usman, said the project was borne out of the need to support Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s five-point agenda.
Amosun’s five point agenda includes qualitative and affordable health care, free education, infrastructural development and urban renewal, improved agriculture and industrialization to engender jobs and wealth creation.
According Usman, the study was paticipatory in nature and involved inputs from a selected sample of staff of OGLSC and critical analysis of individual, team among others.
Okewole pledged to implement the report to enhance the capacity of the staff of the local government areas to deliver on their mandate.
According to Okewole, the Commission would always partner with CMD on ways to continually develop the human capacity required to further develop the state in line with Amosun’s five-point agenda.
Work is going on in earnest on the building of a Women Development Centre at the graveside of the late former Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Mrs. Funmilayo Adunni Olayinka.
Governor Ayo Fayose had late last year promised to carry out the project in memory of the late Mrs. Olayinka in appreciation of her contribution to the development of the state and commitment to the cause of women in her lifetime.
The late Mrs. Olayinka, who died of cancer on April 6, 2013, was buried at a site designated as Heroes Park by the Dr. Kayode Fayemi administration on April 26, 2013.
The site, which was located at Fajuyi area in the heart of Ado Ekiti, was marked out by the Fayemi administration for burial of distinguished Ekiti sons and daughters who had made their marks and performed heroic feats while alive.
At the site of the uncompleted Civic Centre across the road stands a statue of the late Mrs. Olayinka which was erected by the Fayemi administration.
No work has been carried out on the Civic Centre by the Fayose administration since it came to power on October 16 last year.
A visit to the site on Monday by our reporter revealed a busy day for workmen and women who were working on the decking of the structure which had already been overlaid with iron rods.
Contract for the project was awarded to a company known as GRIDS ASSOCIATES which started work on the site on April 1 but had a break before moving back to the site on May 1.
Project engineer, Segun Balogun, who spoke with Southwest Report revealed that the speed of work was being accelerated to meet up with Fayose’s first anniversary in office.
Balogun explained that Fayose, whom he said, was very passionate about the project, hopes to open it for public use in October to celebrate the first year in office.
The engineer stated that funding would not be a problem to the work as funds that would see the project to its completion have been provided.
According to him, Fayose should be praised for the project for rising above partisan consideration since he (Fayose) and the late Mrs. Olayinka belong to different political parties.
Balogun said: “The governor has been giving us tremendous support on this Women Development Centre under construction and he wants to immortalise the late deputy governor who was buried here.
“When we finish work on the structure, the roadwork that will lead to the tomb is a good design.
“The governor has no sentiment about the project, the late Mrs. Olayinka belonged to a different party but the governor who is from another party is using the project to immortalise her.
“And he is carrying out this project and financing it at a time when there is paucity of funds, I think he should be commended”.
•From right: Director, Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA), Mr Kola Falase; General Manager, Hon Shabi Adebola (with the award); President, Ecologistics Integrated Services Limited, Dr Paul Abolo and his Vice President, Mrs Seyi Abolo
Sickness including, cancer, typhoid, cholera and malaria are caused by dirty environment, the General Manager, Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA), Hon. Shabi Adebola, has said.
Adebola, who spoke at Oriental Hotel during a programme organised by Ecologistics Integrated Services Limited on the environment, said that negligence to our environment makes it dirty and results in sickness.
The slogan of the propgramme was: ‘Sustainable consumption and production’, while the theme was: ‘Seven billion dreams, one planet, consume with care’.
Hon Adebola said: “You see little children of four or 10 years having cancer today and many Nigerians believe it is spiritual attack, it is not. It is your own negligence and my own negligence to the environment. We need to protect the environment to avoid all these things and for us to be in good health.”
He stressed that the environment must be clean and free of pollution.
“When you change the oil from your power generating set, don’t throw it in the public place, call or text LASEPA on 08036667049 and we would send our driver to come and pick all these things from you. We have a plant where we recycle things; it’s not that you just throw dirt in the lagoon or in the public place. When you throw in the public place, it will wash into some of these lagoons and it will affect the aquatic lives in our lagoons. All these things are sources of cancer to human beings,” he said.
He encouraged residents of Lagos to patronise the refuse collectors that are available in the state.
“When there are heaps of garbage on your street, there will definitely be an epidemic; different types of epidemic and diseases including malaria, typhoid and cholera. The state government has put in place the waste collectors. When we patronise them, we are not going to see garbage and there will be no disease.
Hon Adebola appealed to people to show love, conserve and preserve the environment for the future generation, saying the environment belongs to us all and not to the government.
“The rich ones are the ones destroying the environment. Those in Mushin pay their rates; but those in Victoria Island, who feel they can speak grammar, would ask what government is doing for them as excuse not to pay. Government policies in the state are initiated to make life easy for everyone. When Lagosians complain of government policies, they do so not remembering that such policies are in tandem with what is obtainable globally,” he said.
The programme also featured awards given to Hon Adebola and the Executive Chairman Submar West Africa Limited, Uche Obidi who was represented by his son, Managing Director, Submar West Africa Limited, Mr. Valentine Obidi. They were awarded for outstanding leadership and innovations in environmental sustainability management. The event also featured the presentation of an environmental management review Journal entitled Pristine Dimensions – Sustainable Consumption and Production.
The President Ecologistics Integrated Services Limited, Dr Paul Abolo said the launch of the journal was a deliberate and planned effort at creating a forum for environmental management communication and interaction which is geared towards increasing avenues for global environmental awareness and knowledge.
Talking about the journal, Dr Abolo said Pristine, means pure, original, fresh and new, adding: “It is a reminder to connect back to the purity offered by nature through environment to humanity.” He added that ‘Dimensions’ indicate the actionable policies, practices and culture that connect humanity back to the purity offered by the environment.
Pristine Dimensions, he said, is a sustainable medium that provides information for making the connection back to the purity of nature offered by the environment through environmental management research, discussions, opinion and reporting.
He said the journal aims at breaking traditional disciplinary boundaries by connecting practices from different backgrounds to the environment, thereby attracting contributions from business, banking, government, research establishments, and public interest groups to provide a rich spectrum of perspectives and approaches to environmental sustainability.
“It is also a forum for environmental sustainability reporting, sharing, encouraging, facilitating and monitoring. The journal is for those that are determined to make the connection between life, its practices and the environment. It is for that person that seeks to understand basic and trending perspectives of modern environmental management and is determined to support the development of environmental assets,” he said.
Dr Abolo said the objective of celebrating world environment day was to raise global awareness for positive environmental actionable initiatives to protect nature and the planet, adding that environmental sustainability movement recognises the link between celebration of important environmental initiative landmarks and current environmental awareness initiatives.
“It also serves as a day of reminder to the world to prioritise the environment and give back to it through individual and collective actions that sustain the environment. It is a day to draw attention in solidarity between individuals and organisations; and within communities and local governments thereby raising a voice in support of sustaining the environment.
“Environmental sustainability is a defining issue of our time; presenting a cocktail of challenges: climate change, global warming, erosion, sustainable energy, flood and deforestation, among others.
Relief came the way of victims of rainstorm disaster in Oko in Surulere Local Government Area of Oyo State as the member representing Surulere/Ogo-Oluwa Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives; Hon. Segun Odebunmi donated some relief materials to them penultimate week.
The rainstorm, which occurred on February10, this year, wreaked havoc as it destroyed houses, farm lands, shops, businesses and killed animals. It also rendered many homeless.
Through the assistance of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), relief materials worth millions of Naira were presented to the victims.
•Hon. Odebunmi, first from right, with traditional rulers
Odebunmi had earlier distributed money to the victims few weeks after the incident, apart from paying the medical bills of those who sustained varying degrees of injury during the rainstorm.
At the event which took place at the Oko Town Hall, 200 bundles of iron roofing sheets, 200 bags of cement, 300 ceiling boards , 75 bags of nail,75 packets of zinc nail, 500 pieces of blankets , 150 pieces of children’s wears, 300 pieces of mosquito nets, 400 pieces of guinea brocade, 400 pieces of ankara wax print, 300 pieces of mattress, 150 bags of rice,100 kegs of vegetable oil, 86 cartons of milo, 50 cartons of milk, 50 cartons of noodles,100 cartons of tea, 50 cartons of detergents, 50 cartons of toilet soap and 50 bags of sugar were donated to the victims.
While addressing the beneficiaries, the South-West Assistant Chief Planning Officer of NEMA, Mr. Afolayan Olusegun explained that the agency was committed to making life easier for the people by offering adequate and prompt assistance to the people and community affected by any form of disaster in the country, adding that ”NEMA engages in direct distribution of relief materials because of the lackadaisical attitude of some state governments who either abandon the materials at a store or distribute it to politicians who are not affected.”
Speaking with reporters, Odebunmi said the gesture was part of his efforts at ensuring that members of his constituency are cared for as fulfilment of his electioneering campaign promises when he sought re-election.
Odebumi, who equally used the event to urge Muslims to use the Ramadan period to pray for peace and progress of Nigeria as a nation said: ”The month of Ramadan is a time of sacrifice; a time when Muslims abstain from the physical pleasures of life and seek blessings from the Almighty Allah through the study of the Holy Quran and the teachings of the Holy Prophet. In this season, it behoves on all our clerics not only to lead the faithful on the path of righteousness but also to expose promoters of sects that distort and corrupt the teachings of the Holy Prophet for nefarious ends.”
Continuing, he said: “This month should also be a period when all Nigerians must embrace love, peace and unity, sacrifice for the overall growth and development of the country and co-operate with government for the attainment of our national goals. I pray the Almighty Allah hears and yields to our petitions in this holy month.”
Meanwhile, members of his constituency have expressed their gratitude to the lawmaker for the gesture. Theý Oloko of Oko land, Oba Elijah Adaramola appreciated the lawmaker’s timely intervention, saying that the gesture would, no doubt, go a long way in ameliorating the people’s suffering.
In its resolve to end public smoking and noise pollution, the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA), has strengthened its public sensitisation/awareness campaign to Computer Village in Ikeja, the capital city of the state.
The campaign entitled “Sensitisation Programme on what the Law says on Public Smoking and Noise Pollution in Lagos”, attracted many people who were eager to be educated on issues of environment.
Speaking at the event, the General Manager of the agency, Mr. Rasheed Shabi, said the awareness had become necessary as it had been discovered that thousands of people have contracted several hazardous and life-threatnening diseases through smoking, noise pollution and fumes from power generating sets.
According to Mr Shabi, environment is polluted when there are different types and levels of unwanted noise as a result of human activities or natural occurrences.
This, he said, easily damages psychological health, causing hypertension, high stress levels, hearing loss, sleep disturbances and other harmful effects.
According to the LASEPA chief, noise comes from vehicles, aircraft, power generating sets, loudspeakers of churches and mosques, music vendors (record sellers), commercial noise from clubs, bars, houses, construction noise, neighbourhood noise and parties, fireworks, crusades, promotional adverts (vendors of telephone, computer and accessories, among others.
According to him, they have different degrees of impact on the environment. Such impact can be evaluated based on the degree of disturbance and effect on ear drums of individuals within the environment.
Mr Shabi said the acceptable limit of noise in residential area is 55dB during the day and 45dB at night. Unfortunately, noise level reaches as high as 90dB and beyond in residential quarters. This value is not only unbearable but kills.
According to him, noise pollution is common among the religious houses, namely churches, mosques and other worship centres, garages, markets, record sellers, telephone and computer vendors. The implication of which is high level of noise emanating from loud speakers and other activities.
He said: “The permissible noise limit within the mixed dwelling area such as the computer village should not ordinarily exceed 65dB during the day, but this has, in recent times, been recorded to be as high as 100dB and above, which has already above the permissible noise limit for that environment.
“Religious bodies that are expected to address their congregation only, equally place speakers outside to call the attention of neighbouring residents and passers-by.”
The awareness/enlightenment campaign, according to the LASEPA chief, aimed at educating telephone vendors, computer products and accessories dealers on the need to avoid public disturbances while carrying out their businesses.
•A Street in Computer Village, Ikeja
He also said the religious houses both within and outside the Computer Village are guided by these regulations put together by the state government and the stakeholders; that no externally placed horn speakers should be mounted on buildings and these include churches and mosques.
He advised that noise generating activities and worship centres should be constructed with acoustic materials to shield noise and ensure its control. These activities should not be held under shanties, canopies and uncompleted buildings to curtail noise, he added.
He reeled off some effects of noise pollutions to include stress-related illnesses, speech interference, hearing loss, sleep disruption or disorder, reduced productivity, high blood pressure and sudden death.
Health effect of noise, as he said, include anxiety and stress reaction and in extreme cases fright. The psychological manifestations are headaches, irritability and nervousness, feeling of fatigue and decrease in work efficiency.
Mr Shabi warned telephones vendors, computers and accessories dealers to ensure that noise generated within the Computer Village is within the acceptable limits of the state government, adding that openly displayed loud speakers, blaring noise are not permitted.
Occasional open shows/display by manufacturers or vendors to promote new products is not allowed without the necessary permits and must be done under control/regulations stipulated by the agency to ensure that noise generated is within the permissible noise limit.
•Some of the working generating sets
He urged traders at the Computer Village to zone and buy a bigger generating plant, even gas plant and have agreement when and how to be on and off.
He further warned the religious leaders to stop using residential and uncompleted buildings as worship centres. Makeshift structures, shops, garages, flats, corridors and passages within tenements also are not to be used as worship centres.
Mr Shabi noted that open air crusades by religious organisations are not allowed without the necessary noise permit from the state government. External speakers are not allowed. All speakers are expected to be placed inside the churches or mosques to generate minimal noise that can address only the congregation.
The LASEPA boss said it has been bound by the law of the Lagos State that all monthly night vigils and weekly services that exceeded 7:00 p.m. shall be held without the use of musical instrument if the church is not fully enclosed.
The chairman of Computer Village Community Development Association (CDA), Mr Adeniyi Olasoji thanked the agency for the sensitisation and awareness.
He pledged the community’s support for the agency to ensure that noise pollution and the misuse of louds peakers within the community is eradicated.
Mr Adeniyi promised to constantly monitor noise pollution within the community and report unyielding company to the agency for further action.
The forgotten Oda Cocoa Farm Estate in Ondo State has come back to life. Assistant Editor SINA FADARE, who recently visited the farm, reports that the estate may generate more funds for state as well as create jobs for the unemployed.
The late Chief Obafemi Awolowo could best be described as a man who saw tomorrow. As one of the patriotic Nigerians, his love for his country was indescribable. He had the vision to develop the Southwest Region in particular and Nigeria in general.
To ensure the overall development of Nigeria and the Southwest Region, he carried out ventures, especially those that had direct impact on the lives of the people. Agriculture was the bedrock of all the projects he established. The projects aimed at ensuring the well-being of his people. Focusing on agriculture as the main driving force for his economic blueprint, he ensured that cocoa, among others, became the single most important agricultural produce the region had an edge over other regions.
With the revenue that accrued from cocoa, he was able to establish such monuments as Cocoa House in Ibadan, WEMABOD Estate, Liberty Stadium, Wema Bank, Oda Farm and a host of others in the old Western Region. But after what seemed a lull in the fortunes of agriculture, especially with cocoa production in the region, there is a new wind of change as the produce is being turned to another economic hub for Ondo State that inherited the Oda Farm.
Currently, the old Oda Farm which has been abandoned for many years by successive administrations since the creation of the state in 1976 has come alive once more. The reason for its resuscitation was to re-enact the old cocoa revolution in a bid to increase its output so that the state will be one of the leading producers of cocoa in Africa.
Against this backdrop, Southwest Report toured the 1,774 hectares of cocoa farm located at Oda village at the outskirts of Akure, the Ondo State capital. It was a massive thick forest dotted with old cocoa trees that were planted more than four decades ago.
Dr Oyebade
In a chat with Southwest Report, the project chairman, Dr Samuel Jibayo Oyebade said that the objective of the project was to revamp the cocoa industry so as to regain its glory; make it a catalyst in employment generation and source of revenue for the state.
“Several shylock practices were introduced in cocoa production and marketing in 1986 when the country’s cocoa Marketing Board was scrapped. There was sharp decline both in the quantity and quality of cocoa production; with the resultant abandonment of farms due to poor pricing, ageing of farmers and high cost of production inputs, among others,” he said.
While taking Southwest Report round the project, this reporter noticed the key activities going on in the estate which include revamping and rehabilitation of existing old farms and plantations, establishment of new and modern cocoa farms with early maturity and high yielding cocoa varieties, pruning of the old cocoa trees, training of farmers on better processing techniques for the production of premium and maintenance of cocoa seed gardens with the production of hybrid cocoa pods for nursery establishment and direct planting. The activities in the estate are compartmentalised in order to achieve maximum cocoa production.
The Pruners
These are young graduates trained on the technique of pruning the weedy cocoa trees and how to establish and maintain a nursery which would be transferred to the field for planting.
Explaining to Southwest Report this process, Dr Oyebade said the idea was to employ graduates who will be later integrated in the activity of cocoa production in the estate.
He said: “The revolution purely aims at employment generation. We want to plant 100 hectares of cocoa and we need labour. We are in our first year of operation and I have about 350 such workers; apart from the allottees.”
He lamented that the fortune of cocoa started nose-diving because of the discovery of crude oil in commercial quantities, adding: “The powers that be then eradicated marketing board and the idea of ‘see and buy’ came up. It became an all comers’ affair.
The scraping of cocoa board which regulates the actions of organised farmers and controlled cocoa business and or prices in the market was the beginning of crisis in the cocoa industry.
Pruners maintain the cocoa seed garden with the production of hybrid cocoa pods for nursery establishment. They also fertilise the cocoa tree on the plantation. There was line planting of cocoa in order to ensure optimum plant population per hectare.
Fermentation centre
Immediately cocoa is harvested, the various farmers on the plantation must bring them to the fermentation centre. Its weight will be taken and the result recorded against each farmer’s name before processing which will last for a week before it is transferred to the drying shed.
The methodology is simple. The cocoa beans are overturned daily inside the wooden cabinet where fermentation will take place. This process, according to Oyebade, would give best aroma and premium beans can be derived at the end of the fermentation exercise.
Drying shed
This is where the cocoa beans are sun-dried before taking them to the sieving section where all the pebble and stones that might have accompanied the beans from the local dryer will be separated.
Grading and bagging
This is the final stage where the beans are graded and bagged. The final product can either be sold directly to the buyers or sent to the warehouse where it will be exported.
The Oda Cocoa Estate that spans through 1,774 hectares is the only government-owned estate in the West African sub-region. This has put it in a position to turn the fortunes of the state around if well managed.
Dr Oyebade revealed that the discovery of oil was not the main reason for the crisis in the cocoa industry.
“The fortune of cocoa nosedived because of the scrapping of the old cocoa board. The powers that be then scrapped the marketing board and the idea of ‘see and buy’ became the routine.
“To prove that the farmers were doing well under the marketing board, a sum of 350 pounds was gathered and put under Agbomagbe Co-operative Society by the board in the 50s. When Chief Awolowo learnt about it, he gave them I million pounds in addition to what they had. That was the genesis of Agbomagbe Bank which metamorphosed into the contemporary Wema Bank.
“A commodities board should replace the old marketing board in order to link the farmers to the world. Produce and Allied Matters Law of 2006 is the legal instrument that backs the cocoa revolution in Ondo State. It will give us the opportunity to produce, market, process and export cocoa. It is a costly venture but highly yielding at the long run,” Dr Oyebade said.
He further said that “the only panacea to this lingering unemployment situation in the country is agriculture through irrigation. The type of irrigation l am talking about does not require big dams such as Kanji and Owena, but requires stepping down our rivers and make dams out of them.
“We have demonstrated that in Oda Farm. Our cocoa revolution project is a high capacity tractor-water-pump-driven which collects water from the river and small streams that will be close to the farmers’ farms. Irrigation will change the face of agriculture.
He assured that in years to come, the state will not depend solely on the monthly allocation from the Federation Account.
“In a matter of few years, Ondo State shall be richer than Lagos State. The cocoa revolution will enhance the revenue profile of the state and the monthly allocation from the Federation Account will be mere peanut. While planting our 100 hectares of cocoa, we planted about 200,000 stands of plantain as a shield; that also will generate funds later.
Oyebade noted that if the country wants a breakthrough in revenue through agriculture, the Federal Government should follow the Ondo State template and make cocoa production a source of employment generation for the country’s teeming population.
He noted that with one year into the project, it has recorded tremendous achievements which include sensitising the youth to embrace cocoa farming and production.
This aims at replacing the aged population of cocoa farmers, establishment of modern cocoa farms with early maturity period and high yielding cocoa varieties, rehabilitation of 80 hectares of cocoa farm at the Oda Cocoa Farm Estate, designed, fabricated and put to use a Tractor PTO shaft-driven, high-powered water pump for irrigation and provided employment for over 300 youths and women.
Popularisation of science and technology has been described as the bedrock of sustainable development of Nigerian economy, hence, the need to popularise it.
Professor Kolade Odekunle of the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Reseach (NISER), Ibadan made this known in a lecture he delivered. It was at the opening ceremony of this year’s annual Faculty of Science, The Polytechnic, Ibadan national conference themed: Science, Technology and Enterpreneurship for Suatainable Development, held at the Assembly Hall, North Campus of the intitution.
Prof. Odekunle, noted that the overriding concern should be to infuse into all programmes elements that can generate popular desire for creativity and technological innovation in every segment of the society.
He said:”These programmes should aim at inculcating in Nigerians an ?analytical, scientific mind to enable them confront problems encountered in everyday life, rather than engage outmoded theories and indulge practices rooted in superstition”.
The don further held that:”One of the most urgent tasks which Nigeria must undertake is the preparation of science and technology plans as components of national development plans.
He said:”Officials concerned with making ultimate decisions on choice of technologies, suppliers, sources of finance should be familiar with complex elements of the technology transformation process. It is therefore profitable for government policy advisers to understand the issues involved in managing technology for socio-economic development”.
Odekunle, posited that the formulation and implementation of informed technology policy will stimulate the creation of selection environment required by private sector to effectively capture the benefits of investing in technological innovation, adoption and adaptation.
He said this can be ?achieved through accelerated human capital development programme in technology policy and its management.
The Yoruba Unity Forum (YUF) has appealed to chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to urgently end the ongoing leadership crisis in the National Assembly in order to give the electorate the confidence to believe in the ability of the party to move Nigeria forward.
The group made the call at a meeting held at its Efunyela Hall secretariat, Ikenne Ogun State. The meeting also called for support for the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, especially in its efforts to fix the country.
The group also resolved to host the Vice-President, Prof. Oluyemi Osinbajo to a grand reception at Ikenne, his home town.
The forum, which is an umbrella body of all groups and societies that make up the Yoruba race, is a non-political socio-cultural group.
Furthermore, the Executive Council also nominated some members into the planning committee to execute the 100 year birthday celebrations of Chief H.I.D Awolowo, which is expected to hold at Ikenne, Remo, Ogun State, on November 25, this year when she will be 100 years old.
The Executive Director and Chairman, Editorial Board of Badagry Prime, a news magazine, Otunba Yomi Olomofe has appealed to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to help secure his life and those of members of his family. Olomofe spoke while narrating his ordeal in the hands of smugglers around the Seme Border of Badagry.
Olomofe, who is also the immediate past President of the Rotary Club of Ajara, spoke on his hospital bed in Lagos where he is recuperating.
He explained that the incident happened on Thursday, last week in the presence of Customs officers of Seme Command.
Narrating how he narrowly escaped death, Olomofe said he was in the company of a colleague journalist on a visit to the command, saying some smugglers, who claimed journalists have been writing negative stories about them, pounced on him and beat him to stupor.
He noted that he suspected a set-up because he was at the Seme Command on the invitation of the authority of the Service.
“I wonder how anybody could have been waiting for me there. How do they know that I will be there?
“They were beating me and they were threatening to kill any journalist that writes any story about them.
“I was there with the correspondent of Tide Newspaper. I was lucky that a friend from Rotary Club came to take me away; I would have been dead; because I was left there almost lifeless.
“This happened within the premises of the Nigerian Customs Service and I don’t know what they might do again. My life is not safe and that is why I am appealing to the police to come to my rescue.
“I am fully resident in Badagry, my family lives with me. I have my parents, wife and children in Badagry.
“These hoodlums are not unknown. They are known to everybody, but they are above the law. They even told me that they have killed many people and nothing happened,” Olomofe lamented.
Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi has been described as a man with a vision, who within a short period of his first term brought dividends of democracy to the people of Oyo State.
The Baale of Ido. Chief Tajudeen Adelani Akinosun Agura who said this yesterday in Ibadan, posited that Governor Ajimobi’s re-election is a confirmation of his relentless efforts towards the development of the state.
Agura described the governor as the best governor Oyo State has ever had in its political history.
He maintained that Governor Abiola’s achievements in the last four years convinced the masses to renew his mandate for another four years.
The community leader gave kudos to the state governor for committing himself to the well being of the citizens of the state despite all odds.
He explained that dualization of road projects in major cities in the state, construction of Total Gardens, urban renewal, respect to the traditional rulers, prompt payment of workers salaries among others, were the unbeatable feat recorded by the Senator Abiola Ajimobi.
“Governor Ajimobi is a sound leader with adequate administrative strategies. His coming for second term is a blessing to the entire citizens of Oyo State. I know that the governor would use the opportunity of his second term in office to take the state a greater heights in a ramification, he maintained” he said
Agura said Governor Ajimobi’s persistence on people-centred policies had endeared him to the hearts of everyone.
