By Eric Elezuo
The Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke has launched a six pronged project to touch the lives of Osun masses in all the local governments areas of the state.
The statement signed by the governor’s spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, and made available to The Boss highlighted the programmes as follows:
- Provision of portable water in 332 towns/Villages; one in each of the 332 wards in the State. The implementation has already started in Osogbo, Ifelodun and other local governments of the state.
- Complete renovation of 30 schools, one per local government, including portable water and the provision of at least 50 computers with internet services in each renovated school.
- Rehabilitation of 332 primary health care centers; one in each of the 332 wards in the State. Access to Health Care at the grassroot is the main objective.
- Enrollment of 3000 Osun Citizens in the Health Insurance Scheme, free of Charge.
- Rehabilitation of nine major roads, one per federal constituency. This is targeted at reducing the high infrastructure deficit facing the state.
- Implementation of an ongoing ICT/tech innovations programme which include the making of first State ICT Policy, first State Innovation Policy, domestication of Nigeria’s Startup Act and Goggle Mapping of Osun state to address the yearning of Osun youth population.
The programmes, Rasheed maintained, are designed to touch the lives of the masses, and the youths in particular, and will be in full delivery by the time the administration marks 100 days in office.
Commenting on the progress of work across the six identified areas, the statement quoted Governor Adeleke as saying that the projects were selected on the basis of their direct positive impacts on the people of the state.
The governor further called on all local governments that have not submitted their selected locations for each of the projects, to do so immediately, so as to meet the deadlines set for the project implementation.
Governor Adeleke also urged community volunteers working on the Google Mapping Project to accelerate the updating of their areas on Google map to boost local business and connectivity in the state.
“Our administration is working to deliver on our electoral promises. We are targeting projects that touch the lives of the masses. I want the people to feel the impact of governance”, Governor Adeleke stated.