Oyo commissioner explains employment of 23,000 youths

…Says it to enhance long-term succession plan

Governor Seyi Makinde is leaving lasting legacies that will ensure functionality of government institutions for sustainable development programmes of government, the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Dotun Oyelade has said.

While playing host in his office to the management of a new radio station in Ibadan, Oyelade said that the focus of the Seyi Makinde administration in the last five years has been to empower and entrench government institutions such that they would be more powerful than those who established them in the first place.

The commissioner said that institutions such as the Oyo State Anti-corruption Agency (OYACA), the Oyo State Mobilisation Agency for Socio-economic Development (OYMASED), the Oyo State Rule of Law Enforcement Authority including those already in existence were being consolidated to play big roles in an efficient bureaucracy.

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The commissioner noted that the “unequalled” employment of over 23,000 youths, apart from serving to lower the unemployment rate in the state, was actually a strategy deployed by the Seyi Makinde administration to booster a robust succession plan for the ageing civil service in order to actualise the aims and objectives of the state’s road map for sustainable development agenda 2023 to 2027.

Oyelade also said that the promotion of 45 new permanent secretaries was also a strategy to strengthen and consolidate the State’s Developmental Agenda.

Eniola Afolabi, General Manager of the radio station, expressed readiness for a symbiotic relationship with the Oyo State Government to promote professional sanity in society.