Engineer Seyi Makinde, the governor of Oyo State has done more for the people of the state than during his first tenure in office.
This has allayed the historical phobia people usually have of second term governors and their performances.
In a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, 335.19km of roads have been constructed since 2019, out of which 144.37km were constructed in the first four years and 190.82km commissioned in just 17 months into the second term.
The Commissioner said the ongoing 110km circular road project has its bridges and interchanges on the South East Segment of the circular road completed with a projection of 100% delivery in 24 months.
The circular road will make Oyo State most accessible to all road networks in the Federation.
The Commissioner said that earlier this week, the Civil Service Commission announced the recruitment of 791 workers into the Mainstream.
He, however, recalled that 692 Education Officers, 60 Environmental Health Officers, 19 Lands Officers, 30 Lawyers have earlier been recruited into the Mainstream of the Oyo State Civil Service.
“If the 791 new recruits are added, the Seyi Makinde administration would have broken the employment record of the State by recruiting 1,592 into the Service, half way into its second term,” he said.
It would be recalled that at a leadership retreat held for top government officials on October 4th 2023, shortly after his re-election, Governor Seyi Makinde promised that his second term in office will witness more accelerated growth in all sectors than in his first term with people-friendly policies.
The Governor at the retreat warned members of his cabinet that the people of Oyo state will neither take excuses nor stories from his administration and therefore gave them a matching order to perform better than his first term achievements.
The Commissioner said that before the end of this month, 7,000 Primary School Teachers out of the 46,000 that sat for the Computer Based Test, will receive their employment letters.
“The 7,000 new teachers being recruited is obviously more than the 5,000 Secondary School Teachers the Seyi Makinde administration employed in his first term,” he said.
Gov. Makinde’s efforts since 2019 has repositioned the Ibadan airport, now Samuel Ladoke Akintola airport, recently upgraded to International status which will make Oyo State the Commercial Hub of the Southwest.
Also the Fasola industrial estate has become the transformative initiative of Governor Makinde in Agribusiness and currently has 10 Industries on the 1,100 hectares farm that has become the destination for private local and International investors.
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