Ekiti Restates Commitment To Inclusive Governance

The Ekiti State government has restated its commitment to inclusive governance and policies that will keep the people, including the media, well-informed of the government’s activities.

The state’s Commissioner for Information, Rt. Hon. Taiwo Olatunbosun, who stated this, said no stone would be left unturned to ensure that the people were adequately informed of Governor Biodun Oyebanji’s administration’s policies and programmes.

He spoke at the weekend after the two-day media and state executive council members’ tour of ongoing and completed project sites on an on-the-spot assessment of the project’s facts across the state.
Olatunbosun described the tour as reflecting the administration’s commitment to transparency and accountability, adding that it invited scrutiny and an independent review of government activities.

Some of the completed projects inspected during the media tour included the Model Smart School at Ekiti Knowledge Zone in Ijan Ekiti; renovation of dining hall and construction of therapy room at the Special School in Ido Ekiti; 100-capacity hostel at Command Secondary School, Isan Ekiti; ICT Centre and Catering Department at Government Technical College, Igbara Odo; renovated classrooms and ICT Centre at Corpus Christi College, Ilawe Ekiti and GRA 3rd Extension Road in Ado Ekiti.

The ongoing projects inspected included Isinbode-Ara-Ikole Road, Ilukuno-Ayegunle Road, Itapa-Omu-Ijelu Road, Ilawe-Ikere Road, Igbara Odo-Ikere Road, Erekesan Market interior-Ewi Palace Link Road, Ado Ekiti New Town Housing Estate, Ado Ekiti Ring Road Phase One, Indoor Sports Hall, and International Centre for Arts and Culture.

He stressed that a remarkable number of achievements have been recorded since the advent of the present administration in the state over 22 months ago.

The state’s commissioner for Works, Mr Adesola Adebayo, while addressing newsmen, said the government had abolished the use of laterite base for the construction of roads in the State, adding that the massive road projects by the government are designed to ease traffic congestion and boost economic activities in the state.