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  • Ogun vigilance group unveils fresh strategy

    Ogun vigilance group unveils fresh strategy

    The Ogun State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs Chief Jide Ojuko has unveiled new uniform for officers of the Vigilance Service.

    Unveiling the uniform in Abeokuta, the state capital on Saturday, Ojuko noted that the initiative was to reposition the operatives of the VSO for strategic operations and give the Corps a more befitting outlook that would make the organisation appreciated by the public.

    “With this new look, we expect better performance and service delivery in your operations. The public will want to see your new carriage, comportment, neatness and professionalism. So, on behalf of the state government, I congratulate you all.

    “I hereby urge our officers to be more proactive, renew your commitments and join hands with the government in bringing crime rate to the barest minimum,” Ojuko said.

    Earlier in his address, the State Commander of VSO, Mr. Soji Ganzallo restated the commitment of the service in partnering with other security agencies in combating crimes, even as he assured that his men would continue to ensure that security of lives and property were guaranteed.

    Ganzallo added that regular training programmes have been carried out in order to fully equip the officers for the challenges ahead.

    He also appealed to members of the public to provide vital information to the service that would  help in revealing criminals and their hideouts.

  • Ogun vigilance group unveils fresh strategy

    Ogun vigilance group unveils fresh strategy

    The Ogun State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs Chief Jide Ojuko has unveiled new uniform for officers of the Vigilance Service.

    Unveiling the uniform in Abeokuta, the state capital on Saturday, Ojuko noted that the initiative was to reposition the operatives of the VSO for strategic operations and give the Corps a more befitting outlook that would make the organisation appreciated by the public.

    “With this new look, we expect better performance and service delivery in your operations. The public will want to see your new carriage, comportment, neatness and professionalism. So, on behalf of the state government, I congratulate you all.

    “I hereby urge our officers to be more proactive, renew your commitments and join hands with the government in bringing crime rate to the barest minimum,” Ojuko said.

    Earlier in his address, the State Commander of VSO, Mr. Soji Ganzallo restated the commitment of the service in partnering with other security agencies in combating crimes, even as he assured that his men would continue to ensure that security of lives and property were guaranteed.

    Ganzallo added that regular training programmes have been carried out in order to fully equip the officers for the challenges ahead.

    He also appealed to members of the public to provide vital information to the service that would  help in revealing criminals and their hideouts.

  • Ogun govt hails NUT for high educational standards

    Ogun govt hails NUT for high educational standards

    Ogun State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs Chief Jide Ojuko has commended the leadership of the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), for the sustenance of high educational standard in the state.

    Ojuko, who acknowledged that the union is putting more efforts in ensuring good records and performance in the sector, spoke while receiving the new executive of the union, led by its Chairman, Comrade Adebanjo Titilope, in his office in Abeokuta.

    The Commissioner said the Governor Ibikunle Amosun-led administration would not relent in ensuring prompt payment of teacher’s salaries and entitlements, noting that the role of teachers cannot be over-emphasised, as they are the key agents of change in raising future generations.

    “This administration in Ogun is responsible and would leave no stone unturned in ensuring that those in charge of raising the future generations of this state are adequately taken care of. Let me, on behalf of the state government, assure you, that local government autonomy, that you crave for, can only be a success, with adequate funding. The government has been augmenting  what comes from Abuja since I became commissioner in this dispensation, hence it must be commended,” Ojuko said.

    Titilope promised the support of the NUT to the government, saying that the union is pleased with the prompt payment of salaries and allowances of primary school teachers as well as arrears of the 2015 promotion.

    He added that the union appreciated the government for using the Paris Club funds to offset deduction arrears of workers.

    According to him, the Amosun administration has proven itself to be a government of all, by making the welfare of the workforce a priority.

    The state NUT boss said the union was aware of government’s intervention in the area of staff welfare, assuring that the NUT would continue to bridge the communication gap and erase all ill- feelings as well as ensure cordial relationship among it, the Ministry and the State at large.

    Chairman, Mokoloki Ofada LCDA, Hon. Kudirat Balogun, also appreciated the leadership of the NUT for retracing their steps and joining hands with the state government in its rebuilding mission.

    The government, she said, would create an enabling environment to foster harmonious relationship.

  • Traditional rulers are partners in democracy – OGSG

     

     

    The Ogun State Government has disclosed that it would continue to ensure that Traditional institutions in the state are placed in their rightful positions as they are an integral framework of history and the bedrock of democracy.

    The Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Chief Jide Ojuko made this disclosure while speaking with newsmen in his office in Abeokuta.

    Ojuko said government would always ensure continuous harmonious relationship with traditional rulers noting that they remained the closest organ to the people and an enduring part of cultures and traditions.

    He said traditional rulers have demonstrated high level of partnership with the State Government by mobilizing their people in the areas of prompt payment of taxes and other  levies  and had  ensured that peace and tranquility were maintained across communities and villages.

    Chief Ojuko maintained that government having realized these enormous support of the traditional rulers in the development of the State, made appropriate steps by mediating and resolving lingering disputes on chieftaincy stools.

    “All these chieftaincy installations are a demonstration of the resolve of our administration to ensure that no chieftaincy stool is left vacant, because our Administration regards the traditional institution as partners in progress in seeing that all our efforts at developing Ogun State percolate down to the grassroots,” Ojuko said

    Chief Ojuko added  that the success recorded by the present administration in installing traditional rulers to fill  vacant stools were as a result various intervention meetings by the Ministry as well as the cooperation and support of all parties contending for the stools.

    He however said government alone could not meet all the needs of the communities, hence the spirit of communal efforts by the traditional rulers in order to complement government efforts in bringing speedy development to all sectors of the social and economic life was highly appreciated by the current administration as government would leave no stone unturned to bring development to the State.