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As part of the efforts to boost its Internally Generated Revenue(IGR), Oyo State Government has revealed plans to build an airport in the Oke Ogun axis of the state.
The Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Professor Musibau Babatunde, disclosed this in Saki while addressing critical stakeholders at a forum organised by the ministry to educate the people on the state’s 20-year development plan.
The commissioner, who also gave an insight into the five-year plan that would aid the actualisation of the long term plan that will transform the state, assured that there are enough resources to actualise the plans.
Speaking, the Special Assistant to Governor Seyi Makinde on Economic Planning, Gbenga Oyekola, said the short, medium and long term plans were developed to ensure that abandoned projects that funds have been earmarked for might be strategically channeled to other projects that will benefit the people.
Contributing, the Chairman of Saki West Local Government Area, Sarafadeen Omirinde, emphasised the need for people to express their views and enjoined the state government to erect adequate street lights in other areas of Oke Ogun zone, in order to reduce crimes and criminality to the barest minimum.
Earlier in her welcome address, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, Mofoluke Adebiyi, described the 20-year plan as an integral blueprint that will take Oyo State to enviable heights.
The event tagged, ‘Stakeholders Engagement and Validation Meeting on Oyo State 2040 and Medium Term Plan 2021-2025,’ has been going round major parts of the state, with royal fathers, traditional rulers, civil society groups, community leaders, trade associations among others in attendance.