Oyo Agency Creates 20,000 Jobs In Micro-Projects

Oyo State Community and Social Development Agency (OYCSDA) has disclosed that 20,000 jobs have been created from the ongoing 66 micro-projects across communities in the state.

Members of the communities that have skills in carpentry, bricklaying, plumbing, electrical engineering among others have benefitted.

Chairman, OYCSDA, Abideen Adeaga disclosed this at a capacity building workshop for chairmen of the 33 local government areas, the heads of local government administration (HLGAs) and desk officers attached to OYCSDA’s micro-projects where communities were implementing projects from the financial intervention of the agency.

Appreciating the state governor, Seyi Makinde, for releasing funds for the micro-projects, Adeaga clarified that the projects included construction or renovation of community health centres.

, provision of beddings, furniture and hospital equipment, construction or renovation of blocks of classrooms and toilets, teachers and students’ furniture and VIP toilets, drilling of boreholes as well as construction of culverts and line drainages to fight erosion.

“The 66 micro-projects that are currently ongoing in all the thirty-three local government areas of Oyo State, like those delivered before now, are source of joy for the people of these communities, because their worries on conducive learning environment for students and teachers, their fears of erosion, their headaches about lack of potable water and access to basic health care, are gone because the agency injected close to #18million to each community for project intervention, which translated to wealth distribution and local institution empowerment.

“It is worthy to note that apart from these basic areas of felt-need interventions, the ripple effect that has been noted for record is that 20,000 jobs have been created for artisans in these communities.

“So, in this respect, we have to organize this capacity building training for the thirty-three local government Chairmen, the HLGAs and the Desk Officers attached to OYCSDA’s micro-projects, for them to know more about their responsibilities on the implementation of these developmental projects.”