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cidents in the zone during the last eidel-fitr celebra on, sta ng that there has been improvement in motorists’ driving habit.

He said: “We noce a dras c reducon of accidents with only 30 road accidents in the zone involving 206 persons and 13 deaths while our men rescued 101 others.

“The deaths occurred in six routes within the zone in which motorcycle riders were predominantly in the fatality.”

He said that the leverage provided by accredited driving schools to undertake 15 session training programme for all motorcycle and tricycle riders would enable them to be licensed.

“The training will further expose motorcycle and tricycle riders to the rudiments of safe riding habits, which would further reduce the frequency of occurrences of accidents.

“It will give them insights on the need to comply with road traffic laws and also improve safety pracces on our roads.” possible me and Osun State will not be an excep on.

“This is the reason for the SURGE launched in the first place and why currently in every nook, cranny and hard to reach areas of Osun State, community testers have been deployed to iden fy every person living with HIV and link them to treatment. Placing people living with HIV on treatment, helps them to achieve viral load suppression, which leads to a reducon in the transmission of HIV and the control of the HIV epidemic.

“If there was a lackadaisical a tude to the control of the spread of HIV/AIDS by the State Government as erroneously stated, then Mr Governor, Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke, would not have launched the SURGE strategy on the 16th March, 2023.

“The SURGE strategy has the capacity to ensure that Osun State achieves the 95-95-95 treatment target, 100% treatment satura on, elimina on of the transmission of HIV, control of the HIV epidemic and realisa on of the Sustainable Development Goal to end AIDS as a public health threat in Osun State by 2030.

“The focus of the State Government and O-SACA currently is to achieve the goal of the SPEED project and SURGE strategy which is to iden fy every person living with HIV through majorly the ac vi es of community testers to idenfy and link them to treatment to achieve 100% treatment satura on.”

•Continued from Page 3 crease because the level of infla on in the last eight years has made nonsense of the N30,000 minimum wage of over a decade.

The people expect a declara on of restructuring, so that people of different zones will be allowed to operate at their own pace, have access to their resources and its management. The people want to know if in the signs of the mes the leadership feels that the economy of Nigeria can sustain the lavish lifestyle of the policians as it stands. Our country was run for years without a na onal carrier yet individuals fly private jets to socials to show strength, wealth and opulence. Laced with power. More ques ons are begging for answers and we are wai ng in earnest for the answers.

The new administraon is coming to meet a dead broke na on, not only broke but hugely indebted to other na ons. We need to come to an agreement going forward, that Nigeria is unable to create another set of instant mul millionaires by reason of their elec on into the Na onal Assembly, as Governors, among others.

Chief Afe Babalola, while opining for an Interim Government, said he wished we had a partme legislature paid sitng allowances elected for service to the people. To him, discussion of the cons tu on, going forward, remains sacrosanct.

Let’s have a great desire to look ahead and get back to the basics. Public ins tu ons must be made to work for public good. Educa on of the ci zens to become a great value for the future growth of Nigeria. The economy of Nigeria should work for all Nigerians and not just a few. We need to declare an emergency in oil and gas sector to ensure that within the earliest possible me, we set up modular refineries around all oil wells. Let’s be sure we regulate the private refinery to be a great asset to the na on and not a burden to the people. Oil should be given to Dangote refinery such that the price will not be beyond normal. We cannot start well if we don’t plan well. Oil is well if holis c approach is engaged.

There is a wrong noon about religious alliances and differences. There are lessons to be learnt from the EndSARS protests in Lagos. The Muslims wanted to pray and the others formed a wall around the Muslims. Jumat was held and Allah listened. On Sunday morning, the love was reciprocated. The Muslims also came. To this end, we know that there are problems that tend to divide us and there are problems that unite us. A hungry Funtua Muslim is faced with the same problem as the hungry Abeokuta Chris an. The unifying factor is hunger. Solve the problem of hunger and you have solved the problem of ethnic and religious differences in one full swoop.

Same thing applies to Unemployment, Educaon, Economy, among others. The new administra on must ask all groups to come into an alliance with the government to chart a way forward. There must be concerted effort to address all burning issues. The Niger Delta issues, the Boko Haram, ISIS and bandits issues and the herdsmen and the Yoruba Na on agitaons. Pretence solves no problem. These are pulsa ng issues that we cannot wish away. Nigeria and Nigerians must chart a new way forward. We cannot con nue like this. We need to agree.

There is great hope ahead of us. The l ng Ship of State can now be consciously be stabilised with the joint efforts of all.

Our million li le pieces can be brought together as a formidable whole. We have seen these happen in the eyes of the Nigerian youths who have shown their thirst for a workable new Nigeria. This is the dream of most Nigerians going forward. We need our lives back. Come let us anew.