The Oyo State House of Assembly has confirmed the appointment of Hon. Remi Ayodele, Oyesina Oyedeji and Taiwo Oke as Chairman and full time Commissioners of the Oyo State Local Government Service Commission respectively.
Also confirmed by the House were John Adisa and Nike Arewa as part time members of the commission.
The five-man member of the commission will be saddled with the responsibility of regulating the affairs of the work force at the local government level.
While speaking on behalf of other members, the newly confirmed Chairman, Hon. Remi Ayodele assured that the commission under their watch will key into the development agenda of the state governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde to ensure that dividends of democracy reach the nooks and crannies of every local government in the state.
The Deputy Speaker, Hon. Mohammed Fadeyi, Hon. Oladeji Bimbo Olawumi and Minority Leaders, Hon. Asimiyu Alarape lauded the state governor over the choice of the members of the commission.
They described the team as a collection of people with wealth of experience, who have what it takes as far as grassroots development is concerned.
Meanwhile, the House has summoned the Commissioner of Energy, Mr. Seun Ashamu, personnel of the Ministry of Energy and Oyo State Rural Electrification Board over abandoned and uninstalled transformers across local governments in the state.
The lawmakers during the plenary lamented the condition of abandoned transformers procured by the state government in 2011.
This was as a result of a motion jointly moved by Hon. Femi Julius Okeyoyin representing Saki-West, Hon. Mohammed Fadeyi, representing Ona-Ara and Deputy Speaker and Hon. Kazeem Olayanju, representing Irepo/Olorunsogo state constituency.
The lawmakers noted that electricity is indispensable in the socio-economic development of the State.
According to the motion, “Oyo State has a Ministry of Energy and an agency for Rural Electrification established for the purpose of meeting the electricity needs of the people, while some transformers purchased by the then government with tax players’ money worth billions of naira are rotting away in different locations of the state.
“The public properties procured with public fund ought to be protected and utilized for the purpose of their acquisition.
“We discovered that they cannot function because the capacity (300KVA – 500KVA) not commensurate with the electricity requirements of the areas they are allocated to.
“We are calling on the executive arm, the concerned ministries and agencies to take statistics of all the uninstalled transformers irrespective of local governments and work towards installing them where suitable to avoid wastage while our people are suffering.”
The Speaker of the House, Hon. Adebo Ogundoyin while passing the resolutions, affirmed that the state commissioner for Energy, Chairman and members of the Rural Electrification Board should appear before the House on November 5, 2019 to give situation report on the issue.
Hon. Ogundoyin stated that the state government must make use of every opportunity to ensure the development of the society and the people in terms of road construction, water supply and provision of electricity.
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