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VOL. 11. NO.091

Osun Jobs Centre: A Commendable Initiative

The recently commissioned Osun Jobs Centre (O'JOBS) by the Ogbeni Aregbesola admministration is another initiative that deserves commendation.

The Centre, established with the aim of helping youths and em-

ployers, is a good and commendable step that will go a long way in addressing further, the plight of youth unemployment in the state.

In his commitment

to getting rid of youth unemployment in the state Ogbeni Aregbesola has again gone a step further by coming up with Osun Jobs Centre through

which the youths in the state can easily get job placements in line with their educational qualifications or acquired vocational skills. This is in addition to the O-YES (Osun Youth Empower-

ment Scheme) which has provided up to 40, 000 jobs so far for the youths in the state since the inception of Aregbesola's administration.

According to Mr. Governor, "The Centre

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will provide an interface between applicants and employers by maintaining a database that will be made available to employers who need to recruit".

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LAUTECH: Omoworare Warns Oyo State Lawmakers Against Manipulation

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Aregbesola: Innovation, Beauty Of Governance

•Bags Most Innovative Governor Award

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•State of Osun deputy governor, Otunba (Mrs) Grace Titi Laoye-Tomori (right) in a handshake with Honourable Biodun Awolola while State of Osun Commandant of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Philip Ayomide (left), watches during the thanksgiving service for the 56th year anniversary of Nigeria’s Independence Day at Methodist Cathedral of the Living Spring, Isale-Aro, Osogbo, last Sunday.

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Aregbesola: Innovation, Beauty Of Governance •Bags Most Innovative Governor Award

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it is gratifying that the HE governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf would say.

“But we were painful but courageous Aregbesola, has identified innovation as the only route towards delivering good governance convinced that though, decisions are paying off. the decisions might be “We have proved and meeting the yearnings of the people.

This was the governor’s the existing approaches painful to take, we needed through our strategic response on Sunday night to governance had left our to be courageous to take approach that though after being presented with people in poverty, them, if they would in painful, the courage with an award as ‘Most ignorance, diseases and turn bring our people out which we have taken the decisions and driven on Innovative Governor of hopelessness. But no one of their predicament.”

The governor stressed on our development the Year’ by the wanted to rock the boat that almost six years after, agenda have been for fear of what the people organisers of the Media Nite Out Award in Ikeja, Lagos State.

Aregbesola, who was represented by his HE inequality in the sharing of resources, United Nations on Director, Bureau of positions and liabilities of the nation have September 21st of Communication and been identified as some of the factors every year, agreed that Strategy, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, said it was responsible for the ongoing youth restiveness inequality, tribalism and religious sentiment not without reason that in Nigeria as a whole. are threatening the he told his people in Osun Various speakers at a Development and peace of the nation. and others who cared to workshop titled: “The Peace Makers Centre listen at the inception of S u s t a i n a b l e The key speaker at (JDPMC), a non- the seminar, Comrade his administration that he would run an unusual Development Goals: governmental arm of Wale Adebisi of Ola Building Blocks for the Catholic Church, government.

Oni Centre, Osogbo, “We knew that for us to Peace,” a quarterly marking World Peace traced the chaos on the annual African continent to deliver on governance programme organized Day, an the Justice, event often marked by which we promised our by people, we must be ready to break the rules,” Aregbesola said while delivering the acceptance speech.

The governor’s nomination, according to the citation read at the event, came through after carefully following his many innovations in the course of his tenure as governor of Osun.

“He is a thinker, ardent performer, a visionary leader, an agent of strategic change,” the organizers stated in the citation.

Aregbesola told the gathering: “We consciously designed our programmes and policies •Vice President (Professor) Yemi Osinbajo (right) in a handshake with the African to be different from the Development Bank President, Akinwumi Adesina, when the Economic Management norms.

We were Team met with the ADfB at the Office of the Vice President recently. convinced that many of

By KEHINDEAYANTUNJI embraced by our people. swayed by mere emotions.

“We are conscious our The question should be: state has been in the news Are the people, who are at all the time and some of the centre of it all; having our actions have been their hopes restored and portrayed in the having meanings for their negatives by a section of lives? The answer lies the populace that is not with our people and we yet in tune with our know they are with us on unusual ways. But the this journey to total the media have a lot to do to redemption,” educate and not be governor said.

Unequal Sharing Of Resources, Our Problem- JPDC

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the 350 years of slave trade activities and another hundred years of balkanization of the continent by colonial masters.

He stated further that the capitalist economic legacy left to Nigerians by the colonial masters created rifts in sharing of resources and divided the people of the country along ethnicity and religious sentiments.

He decried the jettisoning of African communal system of living, which promotes love, good neighbourliness, responsibility and respect for each others’ views, as well as religion at the expense of selfish style of Western culture.

Comrade Adebisi postulated that there is crisis, economic recession all over the world but peace is essential for the muchneeded development and growth.

LAUTECH: Omoworare Warns Oyo State

Lawmakers Against Manipulation S

By ISMAEEL UTHMAN ENATOR Babajide Omoworare, representing Ife/Ijesa Senatorial District at the National Assembly, has warned members of the Oyo State House of Assembly not to be manipulated and act antithetical to their true political stature on the joint ownership crisis rocking the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso.

Omoworare, who lawmakers should act as described the call for the statesmen in situations expulsion of Osun like this.” indigenes who are Omoworare, who is workers of the university representing Ife/Ijesa as backward and Senatorial District in the uncalled for, said the Oyo Senate, warned the State House of Assembly, people fanning the ember as an institution, should of discord between Osun proffer lasting solution to and Oyo states on the the matter, instead of proposed sole ownership joining unpopular call. of LAUTECH by Oyo state The senator stated this government to desist from in a press statement such action. signed by his Media According to Assistant, Mr Tunde Omoworare, it is unheard Dairo, on Sunday. off and sheer wickedness He admonished the to call for the extradition Oyo lawmakers not to fan of Osun indigenes in ember of discord between LAUTECH to pave way Osun and Oyo states, for sole ownership by saying: “The legislature Oyo State, therefore should not be calling on people or group manipulated to act making such call to desist antithetical to its true from any proposal political stature; capable of aggravating

the situation.

The senator lamented what he described as unfortunate, the trend at which the LAUTECH crisis is going, saying it is time for all hands to be on deck to resolve the matter without jeopardizing the unity and oneness of Osun and Oyo states.

Omoworare stated that Osun had, for long, been responsible partner in the LAUTECH venture financially, resourcefully and morally, despite being at the receiving end on the project He said: “It should be recalled that in 2010, Osun State paid monetization arrears to the tune of N900 million, while Oyo State has not paid a kobo till date.

“As it stands, out of eight academic faculties of the university, Oyo hosts 7(1/2), while just half complement of the College of Medicine is in Osogbo.

“The Pre-degree Science Programme,

Distance Learning Programme, Part Time Programme and the Postgraduate school are all resident in Ogbomoso.”

Omoworare also lamented the economic imbalance as regards LAUTECH, saying: “85 per cent of the student population is domiciled in Oyo State. Out of staff strength, Osun indigenes are about 600, while about 1,100 are from Oyo State. This does not only show the imbalance in the states’ relationship, it equally places Oyo State at an economic advantage over Osun and we never complained.

“LAUTECH is a commonwealth of Osun and Oyo states and we have jointly and equally funded the university for 25 years. The two states are proud owners and should continue to see LAUTECH as our success story.

“That Osun cannot meet its financial obligation for a year is not to say we are

irresponsible.

“In a situation like this, calling for all out war and total breakdown of the system for selfish interest of any segment or section will not work.

LAUTECH remains a commonwealth of the two states until the recommendation of the Supreme Court judgment of mutual consent for any split is respected.

“This is a political situation; laying blame on any state will not work.

Osun is owing 14months’ contribution of its equity, while Oyo is owing eight months. It is unfair for anyone to play state righteousness cards.

“I have confidence in the ability of the two governors to resolve the crisis and I appeal to wellmeaning indigenes of both states to support the governments in putting in place a mechanism to resolve the ranging crisis, rather than drumming for war.”

In his own contribution, the State of Osun Commandant of Nigeria Civil Defence Corps, Mr Tajudeen Balogun, said peace is not absence of crisis and other challenges, but peace with oneself and in family units making up the larger society, which is essential in building the peace of the country and world at large.

The State Prison controller, Mr Kayode Babalola, in his contribution, stressed the need to revive moral values through the culture of love, hard work and shunning of materialism, which promote crimes and chaos in the society.

He therefore called on Nigerians to diversify from monolithic oil economy, which tied them to the apron string of colonial masters and invest in Agriculture, so as to feed the citizenry as a nation.

Other speakers on the occasion, the representative of state commandant of Peace Corps of Nigeria, Mrs Kemi Olaoye, in her contribution, stated that peace is not just putting the weapons aside but involve hard work on meditation, conflict resolution through diplomacy, reconciliation, peace building and sustaining peace.

The Nigeria Bar A s s o c i a t i o n representative at the workshop, Mrs Foluke Ogunleye, said all must be involved in advocacy work and imbibing peaceful coexistence as a nation.

Mr Audu Makanju, representing the Commandant of National Unity and Peace Corps in the State of Osun, said education is a powerful tool that could transform individuals and promote peace in the society, while she advocated for free and compulsory education in Nigeria.

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Flood: Dredging Douses Tension •Experts Predict More Downpour

By KEHINDEAYANTUNJI proactive measures.” water will be flowing, Adeolu added that everywhere, early since likely flood is prediction of inevitable, adequate meterological agencies publicity is highly and recent researches recommended in order to envisaged heavy rains reduce damage and risk of this year till the end of loss of life and property, October, hence, especially in areas prone individuals and to river bank overflows. governments must take

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HE ongoing dredging exercise embarked upon and warned people episodic the flooding and by the State Government of Osun appeared to against indiscriminate erosion in the coastal have doused tension in all the flood-prone areas refuse dumping, which he zone and river catchment in Osogbo, the state capital and other major cities in described as the major areas.

He said: “If you the state, just as experts predicted more downpour. cause of flooding.

He said from now till observe, the rain may be The waterways commence normal early October, Osun and an hour or two hours, but dredging is restoring the activities. confidence of the Adeagbo Ibraheem, one other parts of the country you will discover that it residents who suffered of the residents of the may still experience will be so heavy that major loss in recent time, area, said the water-flow OSUN DEFENDER has been controlled since findings confirmed the the commencement of the returns of the residents in dredging and it is no the affected areas. longer overflowing since Many residents of the beginning of the Gbonmi, Oke-Onitea, dredging despite the Rasco, among other areas, heavy rains. who are close to the Ibraheem, who said he waterways, had deserted has deserted his house their houses for the fear of since the first flood flooding, as the state damaged his properties, continue to experience said the clearing of the downpour in Osogbo. waterways gave him Osogbo, the state safety confidence to capital, throughout the return home alongside weekend, experienced his family. heavy rainfall that The Christ Apostolic doubled the volume of Church, Gbonmi, Osogbo, erosion in the canals and also worshipped at the major road drainages, church premises last while water was flowing Sunday after the flood on major roads. had prevented the It was also gathered members from that the downpour conducting services affected facilities of the inside the church.

Ibadan Electricity The pastor of the •A truck that fell and crushed a car at Ikorodu road in Lagos last Sunday.

Distributing Company church, Pastor (IBDC), which resulted to Oluwamakin, while power failure in major speaking to OSUN parts of the state capital DEFENDER, said they since Saturday. had to clear some debris A source from IBDC, before holding services in Osogbo headquarters, the church on Sunday, as told OSUN DEFENDER it was flooded in the past stated that for potentials

By KAZEEM MOHAMMED that the rain affected three weeks. in sectors such as tourism HE Osun State House of Assembly member, to be translated into major facilities of the The pastor, who representing Obokun state constituency, reality, it is necessary to company in Osogbo, Ile- c o m m e n d e d Honourable Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has adequately address the Ife, Ila-Orangun and Inisa A r e g b e s o l a ’ s and it may take four to intervention, urged the stressed the need to focus on development and rudiments and critical preservation of culture, as well as investment in gaps by promotion and five days before regular government to intensify tourism, as a veritable means of reviving the nation’s creation of an enabling power may be restored to efforts. marking the end of civil e n v i r o n m e n t , the affected parts of the Meanwhile, a declining economy.

Stating this at the 130th war among the Yoruba infrastructure state. and meterological expert, Dr nation in Imesi Ile, reputation management annual Yoruba Peace Osun on Tuesday, Ranti Adeolu, has Obokun Local Treaty celebration, and perception of the September 12, 2016 predicted more heavy experienced worst rains in the state and commemorating the Government Council country.

“The way a nation as flooding in the last six other parts of the Nigeria signing of peace treaty in Area on Friday, he also called for the well as people is seen in years that led to loss of life institutionalisation of the eyes of external public and damaged properties regional integration to has great capacity to worth several millions of sustain peaceful co- drive and or repel tourism naira and Governor Rauf existence among Yoruba sector.”

Aregbesola had since nation.

Oyintiloye, who is also directed dredging of the He said the present the Chairman House major river. recession which blurred Committee on A visit to Okoko River the economy was a rude Information and Strategy

By LUKMAN USSEIN and Gbonmi areas opportunity for leaders to in the State of Osun NE of the compounds in Olorunda Local re-work and re-tool the Osogbo where the Government Council Area, Abaolu, economy for self- House of Assembly, dredging was ongoing located at Atelewo area, Kolawole Street, sustenance, saying the maintained that airlines during the weekend and hospitality indicated that life was Osogbo, has lost Pa Abdullahi Atanda. enormous tourism industries must march the gradually returning to the Pa Abdullahi died of Muhideen, the fidau potentials in the country best and even surpass areas, as residents were old-age-related ailment arrangement will hold are capable of other African countries seeing cleaning their in the evening of last at the deceased augmenting government for the nation to make inenvironments in Friday at the age of 98. residence, earnings, if properly Abaolu road into the abundant preparation to return According to Compound, Osogbo, harnessed. economic opportunity in th Oyintiloye pointed that home. sector. information from one State of Osun, on 30 of the Federal Government Most of the shops of “All natural the deceased September, 2016. was in order in its quick endowments, affected by the flood have children, Mr Saheed land impact assessment and marks, historical places been reopening, while Abdullahi, the stop-gap measure to save and places of attractions, some residents have deceased is survived by the economy through the which are key selling already returned home to widow, children and injection of over N350 points of the sector, must CHANGE OF NAME grandchildren, among billion basically for not be allowed to stand whom are Mr i n f r a s t r u c t u r e alone, but must be seen as I, formerly known and Muhideen Abdullahi, development, but real composite in driving the addressed as OYETUNJI Mr Moruf Abdullahi, investment must be made sector for employment HASSAN, now wish to be known and addressed as in tourism sector.

Mrs Kafayat Oladimeji, generation and foreign HASSAN MOSHOOD He stated that a sector exchange earnings,” Mr Saheed Abdullahi, a KOLAWOLE. such as tourism should be Oyintiloye said. member of Herbal All documents with leveraged on to harness Medicine Practitioners, The lawmaker noted former name remain valid. its potentials for that though the nation Lagos State chapter and ECO Bank and general economic rebound and Public should please take had to make tough policy Mrs Sadiat Sakariyahu. •The late PA long-term stability. note. choices, he stressed that According to ABDULLAHI. The parliamentarian the present pain was

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avoidable and preventable, if leaders in time past had done the needful.

He maintained that Yoruba war that lasted about a century possessed lessons and significant value, as it left many outstanding landmarks with enormous tourists’ potentials across the region, and urged stakeholders to invest in the sector, not just to preserve the history, but for revenue generation.

Describing the occasion as one that should be cherished, especially as it re-echoes the need for promotion of ideals of peaceful coexistence and harmonious living, Oyintiloye maintained that message of peace should be embraced by all Nigerians at a time the country is passing through security challenges.

Identifying attitude and comportments of Nigerians, especially, gatekeepers as one that needed re-orientation, Oyintiloye asserted that these missing links, infrastructures, security, hospitality industry, are imminent to growth in the sector.

“Cost of lodging and services must be addressed, as the one obtained elsewhere in Africa was much more affordable than Nigeria” “The nation must zero down on its strength and work it up through appropriate blueprints and investments,” he stressed.

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Osun Jobs Centre: A Commendable Initiative

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He added that; "the Centre will also keep records of job vacancies which applicants can consult". By this it will be easier for job seekers to know where jobs exist while employers too will equally easily locate candidates that can offer the services they need.

Like almost all the programmes Ogbeni Aregbesola has churned out so far ever since he came to power in his state the O'JOBS is the first of its kind in the country. It's not on record yet that any state in the federation has come up with such initiative. Thus no doubt Aregbesola has become a pace-setter in workable and laudable initiatives that bother on human development.

His effort so far at addressing the menace of unemployment in his state is highly commendable. In all intellectual honesty his commitment in this regard has been so unparalleled under

the current democratic experiment. This is far from being an overstatement as we are yet to see any government - be it federal or state that has been so pro-active in addressing youth unemployment like Ogbeni. His programmes and interventions in the area of youth employment are superb as they have become a template not only for other states of the federation but the almighty federal government and even international bodies like the World Bank.

The record is available for check.

But apart from providing an interface between job seekers and employers of labour thereby making it easier for the duo to connect with one another, another good feature that's worth mentioning about the Centre is that it will also provide other employment support services like career counselling, employability skills training, verifications of certificates and seminars to be given by experts in all fields of the economy. The Centrer therefore is multifunctional.

My Advice On Proposed FG Monthly Stipend

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am of the opinion that the Federal Government should put to better use the proposed N5,000 it intends to spend monthly on all unemployed youths as stipend.

If well computed, this will amount to several billions of naira per month.

If the government can however divert the fund to providing low cost houses for the youths, I believe it will go a long way in making them (youths) more responsible by becoming investors and probably good thinkers.

These houses do not have to be exotic but decent enough to substitute for the shacks that people live

in today (all in the sense of managing) with non-hygienic environment.

If cheaper houses are built with just kitchen and toilet and enough space for living room and bed space) today, many

youths would then become beneficiaries of the housing plan in a year, which will invariably improve their standard and quality of living .

Our youths spend more than half of their yearly earnings (if not more) to pay for

accommodation.

Therefore, should government provide low cost houses for them, a sense of responsibility is imbibed in the youths and they will struggle to maintain their homes and a private

school teacher earning N25,000 monthly can save for a better tomorrow or invest in alternative sources of income.

For some people, they might just be able to start financing innovative ideas that they’ve been

nurturing since their final years in the tertiary institutions.

In my own opinion, if the youths are given N5,000 monthly, only mobile network providers will benefit from that.

Alternatively, some people will streamline their expenses to just their monthly income and this will jack down productivity in the country.

Therefore, I urge our youths to clamour for institutions instead of wastage of resources or d o w n s i z i n g productivity through monthly stipends.

•ABDULSAMAD ABDULRAHEEM, Abuja.

All this efforts of the Ogbeni Aregbesola administration appertaining to job creation for the unemployed youths is in keeping faith with two of his Six-Point Agenda for the state i.e "To banish hunger" and "To banish poverty" as contained in his manifesto; in the same way he has done for the other four agenda. We must commend Ogbeni for this initiative aimed at bringing unemployment to the barest minimum in the state which is in addition to other unemployment reduction interventions he has made so far. It's our fervent believe that if other states of the federation including the FG can follow in his footsteps then unemployment would be brought to the barest minimum in our land.

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Combating Water Drainage Disasters In The State Of Osun:

"To Be Forewarned..."

These notes of warning and caution were sounded early enough, with the appearance of the Rainy Season this year. Residents of the State of Osun are currently witnessing resurgence in the construction of massive roads infrastructure. NIYI OLASINDE does this series over and over again, to laud the courage and valiance that went into the ongoing efforts, in spite of the prevailing economic adversities in the land. The ongoing efforts are especially praise-worthy, when they are viewed against the backdrop that they are going to help significantly in checkmating the horrendous effects of water erosion that characterize rainy seasons.

•State of Osun Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and some of his aides, during an unscheduled inspection visit to some places of flood disaster caused by downpour at Obate area in Osogbo recently.

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•State of Osun governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and some of his aides at Rasco area, Oke-fia, Osogbo, during an unscheduled inspection visit to some flooded arears caused by heavy rain in Osogbo recently.

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HERE are many road projects currently going on in the State of Osun. Within the metropolis of Osogbo the state capital alone, practically most of the inner access roads have been reconstructed. These roads are damn too numerous to mention.

Of recent, the East Bypass, stretching from Ido-Osun end, through Ilesa Garage end; bursting out at Ikirun road had its contract work awarded and work has commenced in earnest. This is not to talk of the work that is ongoing at the Old Garage Area of Osogbo, which, apart from being a work of beautification, is intended to make that heart of the city more spacious, healthy and more befitting. The West Bypass, popularly referred to as Ring Road, constructed by the Alliance for Democracy (AD)-led administration in the state had been witnessing a facelift.

Judging from the way things are as at date with regards to road infrastructure in the State of Osun, it is fast becoming easier for any traveller to cover any part of the state with absolute ease within a day. From Osogbo, the state capital for instance, it is more of a reality than possibility to make it to and fro to any part of the state with all convenience. It is fully appreciated the degree of administrative convenience this development shall contribute to governance and other productive activities in the state. In a nutshell, the first citizen of our dear state, Ogbeni Aregbesola has actually matched his words with action.

Upon his assumption of office, Aregbesola promised to take road infrastructure transformation throughout the state as a matter of urgent and utmost priority. At a point in time, he even said that with him on the seat of governance, the State of Osun has been privileged to have Ona Baba Ona, meaning “road that surpasses road”. Today, this promise has nearly completely matured into a fully accomplished mission.

One more point to stress before moving to the next point is the fact that Aregbesola’s antecedents are clearly speaking for him. Readers are here reminded that the same enigma it was who played prominent roles in road transformation in his days as Commissioner for Road Infrastructure in cosmopolitan Lagos State during the tenure of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Governor of that state.

T is therefore important to draw attention to how important it is to always consider the antecedents of aspirants before entrusting the task of leadership and governance in their hands.

Through his this present outing in the State of Osun, Aregbesola has not disappointed the good people of the state who voted massively for him at the Gubernatorial Polls of April 14, 2007. It is certain that entrusting the task into his hands for a repeated term in office shall not

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be tantamount to disappointing destiny. This feat has been copiously displayed all over again in the August 9 2014 Gubernatorial Polls which returned the governor into office.

IN like to the foregoing are the efforts so far made by the administration of the day in the area of Environment and Sanitation now beg for our attention and searchlight. There is no time that OSUN DEFENDER Magazine would write about this sub-sector that the pains and agony of the past years of the massive flooding terrains and their attendant enormous loss of lives and property will not reverberate in our memory. As the years of the immediate past administration in office wore on, the dastardly and horrendous effects of environmental degradation, environmental pollution, water pollution and contamination, indiscriminate waste disposal, water erosion and flooding became more and more devastating.

This became worse and worse to the extent that –practically all places within the state capital – drains and gutters, street/road divides, major streets and junctions; not to talk of banks and beds of rivers, streams and springs became refuse dumping sites in those dark years.

As the years rolled by, the people of the entire state were reeling and languishing under the full negative effects of unkempt environment improper

waste disposal and lack of drainage channelization. Of all towns, cities and settlements in the state, Osogbo, the state capital was the worst-0hit by the menace of degradation and flooding and the leftovers of their attendant after-effects. In those days, OSUN DEFENDER Magazine never relented in drawing attention to many untoward situations which portended threats of grave epidemics and other health hazards for citizens. We used to draw prompt attention to incidences of pollution emanating from hospital mortuary morgues which were inadvertently kept; decomposing animal carcasses and human corpses on our roads; refuse heaps which constituted eyesore and offensive stenches at vantage places even within the state capital; and the devastation effects of water erosion and flooding on our communities.

HESE did not exclude the devastating effects of wind erosion and rainstorms which annually removed roofs and rafters of residential houses and structures of institutions in the state. In some cases, what we had was a complete pull-down of structures that had been weakened cumulatively due to poor maintenance culture.

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Thanksgiving Service For The 56th Year Anniversary Of Nigeria’s Independence Day At Methodist Cathedral Of The Living Spring, Isale-Aro, Osogbo, Last Sunday.

•State of Osun deputy governor, Otunba (Mrs) Grace Titi Laoye-Tomori (right) in a discussion with State of Osun Christian Council of Nigeria (CCN) Chairman, Reverend James Popoola (left).

•A cross section of clerics at the service.

•A cross section of dignitaries at the programme.

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President Muhammadu Buhari At The Sideline Forum On Environment Sustainability At The UN General Assembly In New York Recently.

•President Muhammadu Buhari (3rd left); Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed(left); President of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou (2nd left)’ Nigeria Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geofrey Onyeama (2nd right) and Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme, Mr Ibrahim Thiaw.

President Muhammadu Buhari Arrived Abuja After His Participation At The United Nations General Assembly UNGA71 In New York Recently.

•President Muhammadu Buhari Arrived Abuja after his participation at the United Nations General Assembly UNGA71 In New York. (Right) The president greeting the service chiefs on his arrival to Nigeria recently.

•President Buhari (right) in a handshake with Lagos State Governor exchanging pleasantries with the, Akinwumi Ambode while other dignitaries watch.

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•A Toyota car with registration number, LSD 683 DZ (Lagos) washed inside the bridge by the flood during the heavy rain recently while the driver of the vehicle was also washed away by the flood at Oke-Oniti area, Osogbo, State of Osun.

the Federation Accounts to our state in form of Ecological Funds during the Oyinlola years of fiery siege. These enormous sums of funds, cumulatively summing up to several tens of billions of naira were released to states and local government councils as second and third tiers of government respectively to prevent, mitigate and remedy the devastating effects of natural disasters within their territories of governance.

Unfortunately all the monies went elsewhere, suspiciously, into the private coffers of some mighty men in power in those days; and got committed to causes for which they were least intended by the releasing authorities at the federal level of governance.

S clearly demonstrated earlier, the ugly effects of environmental degradation, pollution, indiscriminate waste disposal, water contamination and water erosion/flooding became more pronounced as the Oyinlola administration progressed in office. In year 2009, the state and its people reeled helplessly under the destructive yoke of erosion and flooding. The flooding incident of July 10, 2010 was the climax for the state in entirety and for Osogbo in particular. It also sang the Nunc Dimittis for the Oyinlola administration and that of the local administration in the town. The Ataoja of Osogbo of the tome, Oba Iyiola Oyewale Matanmi II joined his ancestors barely a month after that flood wreckage; precisely on August 5, 2010; while an end came to the seemingly-endless Oyinlola siege barely five months later, precisely on November 27, 2010. Honestly, had an end not come to that administration in our state; what remained of it as at 2010 would have been completely washed away by the rains of 2011 and the supposed Gubernatorial Elections of that same year! By the time of turning around of

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captivity in November 2010, both threats had their mouths agape; with their venomous fangs outstretched; ready to devour the state and its people; thus bringing the corporate existence of the state into total annihilation and extinction. But God had not designed the state and its people for the gastronomical intents of these devouring spirits. That is why our salvation came in the fullness of time! Thank God for His saving grace!

One of the very first areas of priority attention of the Aregbesola administration upon its coming on board the saddle of governance in the State of Osun was the Environment and Sanitation Sub-Sector of our economy. Since that very first effort made by the administration in that direction; it has so far not relented; neither has its strength and means abated. Governor Aregbesola has clearly demonstrated his avowed determination to rid the State of Osun of dirt and filth. Not only that, he has shown that he has all it takes in terms of knowledge and wherewithal to convert our weaknesses into strengths; and convert our threats into opportunities by making the state prosperous – even by turning waste into wealth. This last feat has been record3ed recently by the administration through the launch of the O’Clean Plus.

The earlier intervention efforts in the direction of purging the state of dirt, filth and horrible sites kick-started when Governor Aregbesola in February 2011, barely three months into his career in the governance of the state, declared a 90-day emergency in the Environment and Sanitation Sub-Sector.

Alongside this, the State of Osun Environmental Sanitation Scheme, nicknamed O’Clean was rolled out. Much earlier, as early as the first week of December 2010, call had been made to young, vibrant, unemployed, yet interested residents of the

state who were either university graduates or polytechnic Higher National Diploma holders to apply free online for employment into the Osun Youth Employment Scheme, known for short as OYES. The response was impressive, and the strides made so far in that sub-sector is reserved fie another segment of this report. All that needs be said in passing here concerning the OYES programme is that the first major area of its impact; apart from youth empowerment and employment generation has been the area of Environmental Sanitation, beautification, crowd and traffic control, ambulance and rescue operations as well as paramedics.

Thus the OYES programme of the Aregbesola administration has impacted well on the health and sanitation needs of residents of the State of Osun; so much that the OYES and the O’Clean intervention efforts have become the envy of other states in the federation, as well as the Federal Government and other interest groups like the international communities and organizations such as the United Nations and its World Bank.

HE first 90-day of emergency in the Environment and Sanitation Sub-Sector of the State of Osun having been completed, the sanitation efforts were not given up; neither were they relaxed. Up till the time of filing this report, a mandatory bimonthly environmental sanitation exercise is being observed throughout the length and breadth of the state; and this has so positively impacted the sanitation and health needs of the state that Osun has become the land of healthy citizens where all threats of deadly epidemics have been made not only to lose their grip but also to disappear for good and all!

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exercise being observed throughout the State of Osun, there are other types of similar exercises earmarked for other categories of people on weekly basis. For instance, the civil servants and offices have theirs on Wednesdays; the traders, artisans and shipowners have theirs on Thursdays, while commercial motorists and motor parks hold theirs on Fridays – all between the hours of 7.00 a.m. and 10.00 a.m. Also, that of bimonthly general sanitation also holds on second and fourth (last) Saturdays of every month, between the hours of 7.00 a.m. and 10.00 a.m.

INCE the rolling out of the sanitation exercises in the State of Osun; the efforts and the O’Clean outfit have so far impacted so positively that asserting that the people have internalized the virtue of cleanliness is stating the obvious. The Government Unusual in its own part has been doing things that are unusual in the usual way! Vehicles, equipment and waste disposal vans were procured to facilitate the work, while townspeople across the state are made to embrace the practice of dropping their refuse at accredited points and centres in order to make their lifting much easier.

Also, Central dumping sites have been so located at town and city outskirts that they could not constitute any threat of pollution to residents Also upon the recent launch of O’Clean Plus, an obvious downward extension of the initially-launched broad O’Clean intervention; it is clear that not all the waste materials that are combustible shall be set on fire, as some of them shall be used to generate some alternative sources of energy for household use. This, as said earlier on, is a source of wealth to the State of Osun.

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achievements of the incumbent administration in the state in this area have been highly illustrious and impressive. Up till date, the impact of the administration is being felt to the extent that the State of Osun has risen to become the envy of other states in the federation. Any part of the state being visited speaks of changed value system from the ugly horrible sights of the past to a new, well-rebranded land of beauty and high aesthetic value. This measure is well taken as a means of backward integration; so that through our collective carefulness and vigilance, we can take our destinies into our own hands and forestall the occurrence of avoidable diseases. This trend has been achieved. We shall at this juncture do justice to a careful analysis of the achievements of the Government Unusual of Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola in other remaining sectors and sub-sectors of the life of the state.

It is the consummate attainment of this that OSUN DEFENDER Magazine is now committed.

IN the area of Women and Children Affairs cum Social Development, the Government Unusual has done so well that we can boldly assert that the best so far has begun to be witnessed in the sub-sector. We place it in record that in recognition of the vital role played in the development and future greatness of our society that Ogbeni Aregbesola in the presentation of the Appropriation Bill Estimate for the year 2013 before the honourable members of the State of Osun House of Assembly, announced the creation of a new ministry with the branding and nomenclature of Ministry of Children and Women Affairs. The inclusion of children in particular indicates that new imprints are about to be left in the sands of time and governance of the state. This trend has begun to be set, not only in name but

also in action and programmes. We shall make this crystal clear in due course of time.

The role of and commitment of the incumbent administration in and to the issue of women development have been prominently visible since its coming on board the parlances of governance in the state. Various programmes and supportive schemes have been put in place to organize women into groups with a view to training them and empower them so as to enhance their liberation by reducing their overdependence on then male gender. This feat was recorded through a collaborative, coordinated effort between the two tiers of government visibly on ground within the confines of the state, i.e. the State Government and the grassroots administration called the local government.

ARIOUS efforts subsist through which the administration of the day has empowered women, housewives in particular. We place on record various training programmes for widows, puddahs and other groups. Also, professional groups like market women have not been ignored in terms of their needs and requirements that could boost their activities, welfare and prosperity.

Also in this regard, we place on record how the administration of Ogbeni Aregbesola has organized and held for the very first time ever, the O’odua World Children’s Day; which was an attempt at the unification of all the Yoruba race scattered all over the place – within Nigeria and yonder, that is, in West Africa, the rest of Africa, Asia, West Indies (the Caribbean), the United States of America, South America and all the rest. At the programme, we had in attendance contingents from nine good states of the federation, which included the following

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•Dredging of Agbede-Alie, Okoko River, Osogbo by the State Government of Osun under the administration of Governor Rauf Aregbesola recently.

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•Governor Rauf Aregbesola at Gbonmi area, Osogbo, during his visit to the flood-prone area recently.

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Yoruba-speaking states of Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Ekiti, Kwara, Kogi, Edo and Delta. Added to these is the tenth, which is the host state, the State of Osun.

Going by the information provided above, the programme was a huge success, as it turned out to be not only a convergence for the children and youth but for adults of all classes, cadres, classes and caste. The greatest achievement of all in the intrinsic quality of that programme is the forum it provided for two frontline traditional rulers in Yorubaland, regarded to be at swords drawn since time immemorial, to sit together and relate as offspring of the same forebears and leaders of the single largest ethnic group among the black race. The Aregbesola administration shall eternally win medals for this feat of acting as a unifying force for the Yoruba race. It has this to its eternal credit.

E shall now dwell briefly on the aspect touching on Social Development, Youths and Sports sub-sector of the whole heading under consideration; particularly, in the sphere of social welfare. Much has been achieved by the administration of Ogbeni since its inception over thirty months ago. In April 2011, the Government of the State of Osun under the dynamic leadership of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola spearheaded the eviction of the state indigenes that were stacked in the war-ravaged Cote d’Ivoire. The cocoarich West African country had been warravaged for sometime over the sit-tight syndrome exercised by its past leader, Laurent Gbagbo and his blatant, brazen refusal to honour the collective voice and wish of the citizens who overwhelmingly voted for his opponent, Alhassan Quattara in a free, fair and credible general election.

The evicted indigenes, comprising mainly indigenes of Iwo and Ejigbo local government councils of the state were not just evicted but well settled home with donations of money, food items and other

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addition to these good gestures; the respective local government councils complemented by giving their own support too. These gestures were clear demonstration that the people had a government of their own, which had the disposition to guarantee and protect their welfare, well-being and prosperity.

Similar to this was the rescue mission embarked upon by the Government of the State to Bauchi State following the postPresidential Elections violence which erupted there also in April 2011. The mission of the rescue team was to search for, find and evict the state’s indigenes from the state that had suddenly become heated up with violence and pandemonium, following the announcements of the results of the Presidential Elections held nationwide that April 2011. The mission was successful as the state’s indigenes, consisting mainly of residents who took sojourn there and youth corps members on national assignment were evicted home in droves. Regrettably, the State of Osun had its own share of loss of lives which came attendant to the crisis. Two of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members who were killed in the mayhem hailed from the State of Osun. As luck would have it, the duo even hailed from the same town of Gbongan in Ayedaade Local Government Council Area of the state. The way the Government of the State of Osun intervened and identified with the bereaved families, communities and entire people by according the two fallen youths befitting burials and giving support and succor to the families showed a government which places premium on the life, well-being and welfare of its citizens. OSUN DEFENDER Magazine is of the opinion that the blown on the state would have been deadlier, heavier and more fatal if government intervention had not been forthcoming at all; more so, if it had not been timely enough.

In early October 2011, the State of Osun

School of Special Needs, located at Powerline Area of Osogbo, the state capital, received a philanthropist gesture from the government of the state when Pharmacist Israel Oyagbile, representing the State Governor delivered consumables and gift items to the students of the school. The items such donated included bags of rice, clothing materials and jerry cans of vegetable oil. The gesture, it was further revealed, was part of the demonstration of the determination of the Government of the State to distribute dividends of democracy evenly throughout the state; class, caste, and state in life notwithstanding.

N a similar vein, local government councils in the state have been in the business of taking turns to cater to the social need of the people in their domains.

Our terrain is replete with examples of these gestures. In a nutshell, our thirty local government council areas and the Ife East Area Office have always complemented the efforts of the incumbent administration by taking up the bull by the horns in arresting the challenges of taking care of the elderly in the council areas’ domains.

OSUN DEFENDER Magazine tarries here to document the effort of the administration in putting smiles on the faces of the old and elderly. This initiative in particular is commendable. The care of the elderly in the society is vital; as most of those who constitute the class of elderly must have one time or the other, taken active participation in the building of the society. Giving back to this class of senior citizens in their declining years cannot constitute giving too much.

Today, a great number of old and elderly citizens in the state; the poor and indigent in particular is receiving monthly stipends from the government of the day. This care of the old and elderly includes the health and medical care, and it goes a long way to reduce unceremonious deaths, dependency and senility of the old.

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WATER resources are a vital sub-sector in the Regional Planning and Environmental Development Sector of the state’s economy.

In the year 2012, the Annual Capital Expenditure for this sub-sector was FiveHundred and Fifty-Five Million, OneHundred and Six Thousand, Five-Hundred and Ninety-Five Naira, Twenty-Six Kobo (N555, 106,595.26). In full recognition of the importance of good potable water to forestall and combat outbreak of ailments, diseases and epidemics, the incumbent administration of Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola did in the year 2011 earmark and actually committed a whooping sum of Two Billion, Two-Hundred and Fifty-Four Million, FiveHundred and Eighty-Five Thousand, FourHundred and Seventy Naira (N2, 254,585,470.00) for the sub-sector. This whooping sum gives an improvement of 306.15 per cent over the expenditure of year 2010 in the sub-sector.

N pursuance of its determination to provide all parts of the state with good potable water, the effort helps to revive the New Ede Waterheads and make it fully functional in water supply to all parts of the State of Osun started in August 2011. It snowballed into the proposal for the award of its contract to the tune of N417 Million for the rehabilitation of the New Ede4 Waterworks with capacity to 100,000 metric tonnes of water per day.

It is expected that fresh construction of water channels shall soon begin throughout the state, while rehabilitation of existing burst pipes and damaged ones have also begun in earnest. As at the time of the last election campaigns, the governor is made fresh promises to the people of Ikire and the entire Irewole, Ayedaade and Isokan local government council areasthat the Ikire Waterworks is included among the numerous water projects in the state earmarked for rehabilitation, resuscitation and reconstruction. That promise was on the

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heels of an earlier one made to a contingent of Ikire indigenes led by the reigning monarch of the ancient town, Oba Olatunde Falabi, Olambeloye III, With these moves, it is evident that the coast is clear for effective water supply to the good health and healthy living of the people of the State of Osun.

THERE is hardly any other area where the administration of Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola has scored its first excellent mark than the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES). This vital and laudableachievement of the Aregbesola administration is here treated last to detail as a matter of deliberacy. As pointed out in the appropriate segment of this report in earlier editions, rather than lumping this sub-heading with the broad heading of Industry, Commerce, Finance and Cooperatives or that of Human Resource and Capacity Building; OSUN DEFENDER Magazine is singling it out here owing to its all-important nature on the one hand, and the towering influence it has garnered to itself all along. We make bold to assert that there is nowhere in the federation of Nigeria where one makes mention of OYES and people would not have caught winds of it as a thriving youth empowerment intervention initiative of the State of Osun extraction. The programme has so much touched lives that its fame, credibility and recognition have travelled beyond the shores of our country.

The Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES), which was rolled out as a powerful, life-changing initiative of Ogbeni himself, began to see the light of day at the very wake of the administration, precisely in December 2010; and before the first 100 days of the incumbent administration in office, it had begun to record gigantic success. By that initiative, which was obviously an intervention [programme to arrest the spate of poverty and unemployment, 20,000 unemployed youths were productively employed in various fields of specialization in a fell swoop. This development marked a

great feat which has been, and which shall remain difficult, if not impossible to outwit in decades to come. This fact is even truer, more accurate and realistic as processes have been kick-started for the enlistment of another batch of OYES cadets. The enlistment processes is still ongoing due to some hitches encountered at the initial stage of the call for fresh enlistment. However, the organizers are proving to be on top of the situation.

The enlistment of fresh OYES cadets for the 2013/2015 shift, also numbering up to 20,000 shall soon be completed and concluded. By the year 2015, 40,000 youths would have cumulatively been saved from the horrendous fangs of sloth and unemployment, even as it becomes very certain that the youths are being graduated and absorbed into vocations of their choices at the expiry of their two-year mandatory period as corps cadets of the scheme.

The development is made remarkable in many ways. All indications attest to it that it has never been possible anywhere else in this country to absorb that many into the workforce at a go.

OR the OYES initiative, the payroll bill monthly adds up to a whooping sum of Two-Hundred Million Naira (N200 Million). Yet the Government Unusual of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola is unshaken even as the precedence it met on ground was that of a government acquiring loans and overdrafts from commercial banks to pay the salaries and allowances of regular workforce in the public/civil service employ of the state and even the pension of retirees.

By injecting N200 Million Naira into the economy of the state, via the enlistment of 20,000 youths of the state’s origin, Aregbesola has by this scheme saved more than 20,000 people from above that number of homes from the dastardly negative effects of dehumanization brought about by unemployment and poverty. Also, he has succeeded in mopping up into productive

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engagements idle hands which hitherto had been the devil’s workshop. Youths who had hitherto been co-opted into odd jobs like thuggery, political brigandage, violence prostitution, drug abuse and other social vices have been provided with more socially acceptable and by far more productive engagements for their respective betterment and for uplifting the status and living standard of the society.

The OYES initiative has contributed in no small measure to the overall welfare, well-being and economic emancipation of the State of Osun. The index of its contribution to the overall prosperity of the state and its entire people is inestimable.

Much is this impact that the programme won the nod and commendation of the United Nations’ International bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), otherwise known as the World Bank. The World Bank team that visited the State of Osun sometime during year 2011 came on assessment tour of the state with particular focus on the OYES programme.

It was in token of the World Bank’s appreciation for the scheme that the international (global) finance institution decided to throw its weight behind the programme by assisting the government to expand its scope.

One essential feature of the OYES programme is its transitory nature. As at the completion time of the first batch

of the scheme, many OYES cadets graduated to other segments of the civil/public service e.g. teaching, clerical/ administrative cadres, while room is being opened to absorb fresh cadets in replacement.

Some of the cadets were even sent abroad to various overseas countries for proper adequate training requisite for their full and functional establishment into their chosen life-long vocations.

Few months ago, a graduation ceremony was held for the first set of products of the OYES-tech; the technical/technological training wing of the broad OYES scheme, who were integrated into the society in various aspects of computer assemblage, repairs, telephone handsets assembly and repairs and the likes.

N the whole, there is hardly any facet of life where the OYES initiative has impacted lives in the state more than Environ mental Sanitation; and Crowd/ Traffic Control.

By OYES initiative, the State of Osun is being rapidly transformed radically decent and beautiful abode, where disasters associated with environmental degradation are fast-becoming things of the past. This implies that the chains of awards, encomiums, recognition and commendation being poured on the governor, in particular, the merit award conferred on him during the penultimate episode of the governor’s audience

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media chat, tagged “Ogbeni Till Daybreak” by the B Zone of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), where the governor was decorated as the best governor in the area of environment and disaster management in Nigeria for the year 2012 had not been misplaced.

SUN DEFENDER Magazine accords great recognition for the efforts of Ogbeni Aregbesola and his indefatigable and irrepressible team. It is on that note that the State of Osun was earmarked to benefit from the World Bank/ Federal Government Youth Empowerment Fund to the tune of N50 Billion. The fact that the World Bank itself has a subagency called Youth Empowerment and Social Support Operation (YESSO) complements the ingenuity and creativity of Ogbeni Aregbesola in coming out with the coinage “OYES”.

We have referred to it repeatedly here that recruitment and selection exercise for the next 20,000 cadets into the 2013/2015 batch of the scheme are currently ongoing. It is expected that training and selection processes of the new batch must be completed in due course of time.

Already, the first batch of beneficiaries has graduated into jobs, careers and life-long vocations.

On the occasion of first year anniversary of the OYES programme, held precisely on

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May 5 2012; the scope of the OYES scheme was broadened, as the cadet corps members were divided into various corps, groups, or cadre corps. Thus, the following cadre corps, which had been part of the initial plan of the initiative, became prominently operational. They are: 1. Public Works 2. Green Gang 3. Traffic Marshall 4. Sanitation Czar 5. Teachers’ Corps 6. Sheriff Guard 7. Paramedics.

Development into operative cadres did actually expand the initial concept in response to the exigencies of the State of Osun experience. This new range of additional cadres comprised a new range of products designed to engender entrepreneurship and economic independence in the corps by way of exit strategy; including the OYES-tech (ICT repairs) mentioned above and the e-payment entrepreneurship project. It is hoped that the finances of the scheme would be improved in the future as more and more private businesses and corporate bodies partner with the government. By then, the initial goal of having each corps member possess all the uniforms of the various cadres in order to facilitate rotation of their experience shall be made possible.

We shall endeavor to pick the issues here raised from this point in subsequent editions.

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OSUN DEFENDER Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Untold Story Of A Leader

Tinubu: My Struggles Through Life W •Continued from last edition.

HEN we heard that he was the head of state, I challenged the rest of us to interrogate Abubakar’s sincerity. Good enough, he was straight-forward. When we met him, he told us that he wasn’t going to spend more than nine months because he was not interested. He promised he was going to pardon us and urged us to return to the country. That was the situation of things before the death of Abiola.

So, we were coordinating with Abraham Adesanya and the rest of them, who were on ground here. They sought and we granted them our permission to meet with and size up Abubakar. So, they honoured his invitation. He sent people to us and there was a strong debate, which nearly divided the group, whether or not we should return. The suspicion around Abubakar arose because of the manner of people they saw around him, including Major Hamza al-Mustapha. Some people within our group felt that we should evaluate the situation carefully and not look at isolated occurrences. A big debate ensued after his announcement that he had granted pardon to those of us who had been declared wanted. There were a lot of intervening incidents that I cannot publicly discuss.

Q: When you returned from exile, how did the idea of Lagos governorship arise?

A: Myself, Beko, Fasehun and others met. The death of Abiola was quite devastating for us and we debated whether or not to return. We also examined whether or not there was a conspiracy surrounding Abiola’s death.

There were so many questions being asked at the same time. The previous elections contested by Abacha’s five political parties got me seriously worried. After giving it serious thought, we decided that we were not going to declare war against our people, but that we should believe Abubukar by returning home to participate. At a meeting presided over by Enahoro, I told them that I would want to return to my mother because I missed her badly. He said no one could stop me if that was the case. The military, in my absence, broke her soak-away, believing that I kept guns there; carted away the generating set and cut our land (telephone) line.

I came home with three pairs of trousers and three jackets. But because I gave her notice and some other people noticed that I was arriving, unknown to me, they had mobilised people to welcome me. I was shocked at the huge crowd when I got to the airport. I was carried shoulder-high. That was the day I was totally convinced that Nigerians could be very honest, if they care about you. Because as they carried me, my ticket, passport and 2,000 pounds sterling fell from my inner jacket. I didn’t know they had fallen off because I was carried away by the euphoria of the crowd. I didn’t know how they got to Sunday Adigun. At night, they told me someone was looking for me, but because the people around me didn’t believe that danger had finally cleared, they prevented the person. But he insisted that he would not give it to anybody and showed them my passport. So they allowed him and he handed everything to me.

Meanwhile, I had no Victoria Island home to return to. It had been taken over

by Abacha. They dispossessed me of the house, as well as my office on Saka Tinubu Street. My vehicles and

•TINUBU everything else I owned. They claimed they found bombs in it and dispossessed me of it. I was totally cleaned out. I had only five shirts, the 2000 pounds and the jackets. Before then, Akinyelure came to America, looking for me, with one briefcase. He was detained for four hours by the immigration because they were wondering how someone could come to America with one briefcase.

They didn’t let him off until they contacted Mobil and Mobil confirmed him as an ex-employee. He didn’t get to my house till about 3 O’clock. He told me I had to come to Nigeria even if I wouldn’t participate. But he said I should participate. I got back home and each time I moved out, people would shout ‘Governor’.

HE day I went to our group’s meeting, they were to decide who to endorse among Wahab Dosunmu, Shitta-Bey and others. They asked me if I was interested and I asked them to give me two weeks to go round since I was just returning. Alhaji Hamzat was there. The chairman at our group’s meeting on that day said they would grant me the two weeks. So I started moving round. My late sister got me some clothes to wear, whether they fitted me or not. I went to Mushin, Agege and other places and people were hailing me as ‘Governor’ and urging me to run. On my first tour of my senatorial district, people were saying governor.

Even people who had gone to another party started coming back into the Alliance for Democracy, AD, and that was how I decided I would run. People in Lagos West, East and Central said: ‘You must run for governorship.’

Q: You spent eight years in government, what will you consider your best legacy?

A: My best legacy is the financial engineering of Lagos State, especially to bring financial autonomy to Lagos State and eliminate wastage and mismanagement. That was just one aspect of it. My greatest legacy is Governor Babatunde Fashola. I identified and endorsed him. That was when my corporate background as a recruiter and talent seeker for Deloitte came to play. Part of the training when you go on operational audit is that the first thing you evaluate are the personnel and the questionnaire given to them and how they answer it. You look at the ability of individuals to really take and

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develop others. There is nothing unique about any leadership. Everybody can come up with different ideas. You can take different routes and arrive at the same answer. No matter how much steel and metal you put together, the greatest achievement and legacy is the ability to develop other leaders who can succeed you, otherwise your legacy will be in shambles. It was a very difficult and challenging period for me. I thank God I stuck to my guns.

OU waged several battles against Obasanjo on issues like fiscal federalism, seizure of local council funds etc. Which of these wars did you consider the hottest?

A: If I have to rank them, I think the creation of the local governments was my favourite because the processes are clearly stated and well articulated in the constitution. And if you do all of that and comply with the constitutional requirements, then you should not be denied. I believe in true federalism. I believe in local government administration, which I think is a service centre for the state. The constitution is clear. It is a misnomer to even think that there are three tiers of government in a federal system of government. There are only two – the state and the federal. It is because the constitution was put together by a group of military people, who believe in command and control that we have this kind of anomaly.

They tinkered with it and they tailored it in a way that would suit a unitary system and I believe that was the problem. We still don’t have a constitution of ‘we the people’. The battle was not personally directed at Obasanjo.

Q: Let’s move to matters personal.

How did you meet your wife?

Through a dating agency! On a serious note, it was through a family connection.

Q: How many hearts did you break?

A: I don’t know, because I don’t look back and I am not a psychologist or medical expert to test for broken hearts and emotional instability. You pray for luck. Sincerely, you don’t know whether my own heart was broken, too. I am a very lucky person and it was through family connection that I met my wife. It is true that I had many dates. Until I met her, I didn’t even want to be married

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because I loved my freedom. I had also been disappointed along the line, my expectations dashed. I was going to be totally free before I met Remi. She was innocent, homely and very quiet. I was surprised by her manners and I was hooked.

I was a DJ to my friends. I love music and my house was a boys’ rendezvous.

Remi used to cook for all of us. She is the best woman I ever met and fully endorsed by all my friends. They were very close.

My friends said: ‘Bola, you now have a woman and you have to settle down.’

I was a successful corporate person.

She is totally urbane and seriously committed to my professionalism and career. I met somebody who enhanced the value of my life.

Q: Who was your favourite musician then, and now?

A: I was interested in music. I enjoy music, from the days of James Brown. I told you I followed Roy Chicago to AdoEkiti, without knowing. I was just lucky.

God just made me a professional because I could have ended up with the late Dr. Sikiru Ayinde Barrister! We used to follow him about for were during the Ramadan, to the extent that I would be locked out. Whenever there was competition around Lagos Island or anywhere, we were always there. There was always the possibility of violence because of the competition.

But when I was an in-house DJ, not commercial DJ. Teddy Pendergrass was my favourite and I kept myself updated on the music scene in America. You don’t have music now. You now have O foka sibe, O gbona feli feli. I love listening to jazz a lot.

Q: What is your favourite food?

Q: Amala and ewedu. But to be honest with you, I love rice. Rice first, amala second. I don’t like eba that much. In any form at all, I can eat rice three times a day.

Q: People say Asiwaju is the richest Yoruba man.

How rich are you?

F you are talking in monetary terms, it is a lie. But I want them to continue to believe that I am rich. The fact is that I cannot prepare for my death. I want to live long and I believe in people and I believe in sharing. So, whatever you ascribe to me in terms of wealth is your own imagination. I will not do two cheques – one to the Central Bank of Heaven and the other one to the Central Bank of Hell – cashable when I am dead.

The money will remain here. I don’t want to be greedy, but frugal with the little I have and be contented. There are certain things they can’t dispute and one of these is that I wasn’t a poor man when I joined politics. I financed the struggle during the NADECO days. Before the NADECO days, I financed political goals and aspirations. I financed political groups and individuals.

No matter how you dream, it is empty without financial success. If you have no concrete financial progress for a state or an entity, it will not endure. I have not taken Lagos to bankruptcy. It was bankrupt before I took over, I turned it into a success within my two-terms as governor. It had existed for so long before I became governor.

During my tenure, former President Olusegun Obasanjo described Lagos as an urban jungle and uninhabitable. But he chose to celebrate his 75th birthday in Lagos! There was a dispute on the Bar Beach during my tenure, but if I didn’t rigidly follow my vision and my belief in Lagos State, Victoria Island would have been submerged.

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NCESSANT bashings have eclipsed our hitherto bright horizon. We are not only oblivious of what the next step out of the woods is; we have actually lost grip with the decay that ignorance has wound around our reasoning faculty. We have suddenly become objects of derision amongst those to whom we prided ourselves as superiors.

Those looking at our invincibility, sadly, have also discovered that we lack the clouts of heavyweight contenders that the so-called powerful nations once dreaded.

Our case is now comparable to that of a hero, who enjoyed being praised to the high heavens, only to become mockers’ cynosures after serious deterioration in values and glamour removed from us the effulgence of distinction that was once our identity hallmark.

Our stories were different in periods immediately preceding our hard-earned independence and when the republican status was bestowed on our nation. Regional governments of old gave high premium to industry and piety.

Individuals who had the grace of ascendancy to leadership positions tried to inculcate the spirit of discipline and hard-work in the followers through acts that were perceived as exemplary and emulative. It was not as if they did not enjoy personal gains and benefits; the issue then was that they demonstrated disciplinary inclinations that prompted the followers to disregard what ordinarily should be taken for highhandedness and sharp practices.

The likes of Aminu Kano, Nnamdi Azikwe, Tafawa Balewa, Obafemi Awolowo, and a host of others considered the plights of others first. After satisfying their yearnings and demands reasonably, they thought of themselves and their immediate family members.

Because we still have the remnants of those good old days around, it is possible to critically assess and compare the era of golden oldies, and the modern period of lack, rottenness and squalor. Life can only be considered better, if as new days unfold and roll by, life for all and sundry is seen to be improving. Those who transited from the old era to our days have themselves become irrelevant and inconsequential because the virtues they imbibed from the heroes of old have been traded on the platform of greed and avarice. They have suddenly forgotten that as their immediate senior colleagues of old did what they could and rested in peace, they are also going to finish their own race and leave the stage sooner than later. They may however contrary-wise end theirs albeit in pieces according to the rule of

By ADEOLU GBOTEMI

We Need To Return To The Basics

now must devise means by which the mentality of hardwork can become institutionalized once again. It should not be a design for mere propaganda that characterized the immediatepast experience under PDP. A strong re-orientation team, which will be made up of those who actually know the rudiment of value reawakening in a discouraged society needs be constituted. Such people must have made their marks in their chosen professions and careers. That should be the starting point in our attempt to get out of our selfinflicted recession that is currently strangulating us.

People are aggrieved because of past marginalization. In some cases meet owners’ children are denied even the bones after the separation the meat. Natural resources and the benefits derivatives are monopolized by influential and well connected individuals. There is flagrant disregard for social responsibilities towards the host communities where the resources are domiciled and the indigenes who are supposed to enjoy welfare packages in scholarships and employment opportunities.

HESE are apart from the land degradation that the host communities suffer generally.

The hitherto suitable water that is conducive for fishery becomes polluted and arable land becomes uncultivable because oil spillage has rendered it useless. This has often denied them the muchneeded veritable sources of income that would have come through farming. These are veritable sources of concerns that are prompting youth restiveness that graduates metamorphoses to militancy. All these have prompted incessant clamour for resource control from every segment of the country.

Governments at all levels must come to terms with the current reality that calls for fair play in all our national life cannot be subjugated. Repressive steps have never been effective in any climes; neither can it in any way be in our own case. People are more sensitive about their environment and plight now than ever before because of past government insensitivity and marginalization of Nigerian citizens. It is better now to dialogue so that frail nerve can be assuaged.

Our country is greater than hundreds of individuals. We must therefore consider issues hampering our stability, peace and development. We cannot afford to remain crises managers if actually we intend to move forward.

Nigeria will remain when all of us have exited. We should therefore not destroy it for those succeeding us.

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retribution by which individuals are apportioned their rewards.

Materialism has suddenly become bait in the hands of the devil to throw decorum and caution to the thrash can of history. Legacy is no longer accorded its pride of place in our national life. Hard-work has wittingly been relegated to the realm of irrelevance. Anybody who tries to do it right is quickly branded, and uncharitable words are used to describe a person with determined heart to impact positively on the lots of the downtrodden.

HE aftermath of the above is that almost everybody in the society has lost battle on the ground of moral bankruptcy.

Anybody who tried in the immediate-past to be moderate in the area of demand and consumption was disdainfully maligned and alienated; as if it is aberration to be modest. Life of ostentation was virtually imbibed by all comers that plundered our common wealth. Those who had no access to the loots were sidelined and the greedy ones were influenced to take to the inglorious dictum of ‘if you cannot beat them, you join them’. The result is that we now remain valueless and bad

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culture becomes the order of the day.

T a time that most countries were rushing to meet up with the 2015 as the target to fully achieve and comply with the millennium development goals, we were busy destroying our economic base and squandering what normally should be spent on upgrading our physical and human infrastructure. Was it not for the change in baton of governance from the Peoples Democratic Party, I wonder what our lots would be by now.

Although, efforts have been intensified to redeem Nigeria and Nigerians out of wilderness of poverty, the impact is yet to be visibly fully-realized.

Nigeria is one of the countries that should not contemplate venturing into the recentlylaunched Sustainable Development Goals because the precursor programme with the acronym MDGs was never seriously pursued to bring derivatives of governance to the masses. The mindset of an average Nigerian now is to fashion way to be wealthy without the requisite hard-work that will justify such. The government at the centre

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