The Oyo State government has defended employing more workers, saying it will enhance long-term succession plans.
The state’s commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, said that Governor Seyi Makinde was leaving lasting legacies that will ensure the functionality of government Institutions for sustainable government developmental programmes.
Oyelade disclosed this while playing host in his office to the management of a new radio station in Ibadan, Melody 100.7FM. He said the focus of the Seyi Makinde administration in the last five years was to empower and entrench government Institutions so that they would be more potent than those who established them in the first place.
The commissioner said institutions such as the Oyo State Anti-corruption Agency (OYACA), the Oyo State Mobilization Agency for Socio-economic Development (OYMASED), and the Oyo State Rule of Law Enforcement Authority, including those already in existence, were being consolidated to play significant roles in an efficient bureaucracy.
He noted that the unequalled employment of over 23,000 youths, apart from serving to lower the unemployment rate in the state, was a strategy deployed by the administration to boost a robust succession plan for the ageing civil service and actualise the aims and objectives of the state road map for sustainable development agenda 2023 to 2027.
Oyelade also said that promoting 45 new permanent secretaries was a strategy to strengthen and consolidate the State’s Developmental Agenda.
In his address, the general manager of Melody 100.7FM, Mr Eniola Afolabi, expressed readiness for a symbiotic relationship with the Oyo State government to promote professional sanity in society.
