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The Oyo State Commissioner for Environment, Hon. Kehinde Ayoola, is dead.
He died on Thursday morning, according to a government source.
He was said to have driven himself to a hospital about two weeks ago where he was attended to and advised to have full rest at home.
Hon. Ayoola was one of the first batch of 14 Commissioners sworn into office on August 14, 2019 by Governor Makinde and was thereafter asked to man the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.
He was Speaker of the state House of Assembly between 1999-2003 during late Lam Adesina’s tenure as governor.
The late Commissioner was born in Oyo town in January 1965 and attended St. Michael’s Primary School, Oke Ebo, Oyo, Olivet Baptist High School, Oyo and the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, where he studied Animal Science and Environmental Management and Control.
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