My administration completed 307 projects under one year in office, says Governor Makinde
Segun Showunmi in Ibadan
The Governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde, has disclosed on Friday, that his administration has completed 307 projects in the education sector, while 236 others are on-going, within its first year in office.
Penpushing reports that the Governor made this disclosure in a state-wide address aired on the Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCoS), Ibadan, expressing confidence that, going by the performance of his administration in its first year in office, the future is, indeed, bright for the state.
The Governor noted that in one year, he has remained focused on the goal of developing the state, saying that in line with his promise to build on the programmes of past administrations that were structured properly, his administration has, so far, completed 239 projects awarded by the previous administration in the education sector as well as 68 others awarded by his government.
Penpushing further reports that Makinde maintained that despite the ravaging coronavirus pandemic, the administration has remained focused and that it has leveraged the setback to improve the health care system.
The Governor implored residents of the state to keep following the directives of the Oyo State coronavirus Task Force on social distancing, wearing of face masks and proper hygiene practices.
“It has been one year since we took over office as administrators of the Oyo State Government. And like every administrator knows, there is a time for acting, and a time for accounting. Ultimately, we will be rendering a full account of our stewardship by 2023’.
‘But before then, it is only fair and just to mark where we are coming from, so we can determine how far we have gone. As our elders say, when a person embarks on a journey, he should stop from time to time, to ensure he has not strayed from the path’.
“We have renovated and equipped General Hospitals and Primary Healthcare facilities. We also implemented a new funding structure for our Primary Healthcare system. The benefits of this new system will be evident in the coming months. Furthermore, we bought and kitted ambulances to improve our emergency operations’.
“We have kept our promise to finish what previous administrations left undone instead of selfishly starting new ones. We looked at the books and found projects from as far back as 2011’, he said.
“So far, in the education sector, we have completed two hundred and thirty-nine projects awarded by the previous administration and sixty-eight awarded by our own administration’, Makinde stated
‘This year, we started two hundred and thirty-six projects which are currently ongoing. These projects include construction of schools and classrooms, construction of Early Child Development centres, renovation of schools, installation of boreholes, supply of furniture and sports equipment and other procurements.”
The Governor on the economy Makinde maintained that there had been incremental changes in the state’s Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, following the introduction of a new IGR framework in November 2019.
Penpushing also reports that, the Governor noting that between December 2019 and February 2020, said the state’s IGR figures had been between N2.43 billion and N2.7 billion.
“We have started the Park Management System to bring sanity and order to the transportation sector. It also generates funds for the government. We are working towards ensuring that the process runs seamlessly’.
“We have renovated and rehabilitated roads and started a Zero Pothole Policy for our roads, first in Ibadan, and this will be expanded to other towns. We paid counterpart funding of N350million so that we can benefit from the Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP). This will enable us to rehabilitate 1,000 kilometres of rural roads’.
“In Land and Housing, we built a digitised platform with georeferencing for electronic Certificate of Occupancy. You can now get your C of O within 60 days of payment.We have improved in the area of ease of doing business and set up the Oyo State Agribusiness Development Agency to harness our competitive advantage in agriculture.”
Penpushing reports that,in the area of security,he said that the administration is building a security architecture that the people of the State would be proud of, explaining that aside working with federal security agencies by providing equipment and vehicles, the signing of the Oyo State Security Network Agency (Amotekun) Bill 2019 into law to complement the efforts of the federal security agencies was part of the administration’s innovations to ensure adequate security in Oyo State.
The Governor however thanked the people of the state for their support, calling on them to keep supporting the administration, with view to making the best decisions for their overall good.
