GOVERNOR AMOSUN APPOINTS OLANREWAJU BISIRIYU AS NEW OGUN HEAD OF SERVICE
The new Head of Service, until his appointment, was the Clerk of the Ogun State House of Assembly who hails from Orile-Keesi in Odeda Local government. He a Fellow of Nigeria Society of Engineers, Registered Engineer with COREN and a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Management as well as past Chairman of the South West Zone and Council member of the Institute.
He has attended several technical and management Conferences, Workshops, Trainings and Seminars at home and abroad. Engr. Bisiriyu has gained vast experience as a result of exposure to different work environments in Ogun State Civil Service; he served as Director of Rural Development and Ministry of Special Duties respectively from August 1999 to July 2007.
Penpushing further reports that, when the Ministry of Water Resources and Rural Development was created in 2007, he pioneered the Power Generation and Distribution Department as the Director in charge of power generation and rural electrification activities of the Ogun State Government.
He was the Secretary of the first State Energy Council in Ogun State which had the State Governor as its Chairman between August 2008 and May 2011. As a Senior Mechanical Engineer at the Ogun State Water Corporation, he was involved in the design, procurement and installation of treatment plants for major and minor water supply schemes.
He also supervised the installation of mechanical and treatment plants at Yemoji Water Supply Schemes in Ijebu-Ode, Papalanto/Ifo Akinside and Ota New Water Supply Schemes. He later became the Area Engineer/Manager for Abeokuta Area Office, managing the activities of over 20 Water Supply Schemes and rose to the post of Head of Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical) with Ogun State Water Corporation.
The new number one civil servant reached the pinnacle of his career when he was appointed as a Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Special Duties on the 6th January, 2012 by Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun. He later served in the same capacity at the Agriculture Ministry between 2013 and 2015 and in the Ministry of Forestry between 2015 and 2016, and assumed the post as the Clerk of the Ogun State House of Assembly on 15th October, 2016.
