A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State and former gubernatorial aspirant, Engineer Oyedele Hakeem Alao (Permit Alao), has urged Governor Seyi Makinde to regulate his insatiable urge for food for land acquisition for financial features, saying that residents’ hardship is being aggravated.
Alao in a press release by his media workplace made out there to New Telegraph, criticized the governor’s alleged incessant acquisition of each private and non-private lands for housing estates and procuring malls, stressing that the continued land acquisitions have considerably elevated hardship for the individuals of Oyo State.
In response to him, “Together with your insatiable urge for food for buying each private and non-private lands in Oyo State, particularly in Ibadan, you can be remembered because the governor who used his workplace to advertise land-grabbing actions within the State. Your conversion of public lands into housing estates with out correct justification or session exhibits that you’re not solely bereft of concepts as a governor but additionally have ulterior motives geared toward inflicting extra hardship for the individuals.
“Regardless of Oyo State protecting a complete land mass of 28,454 sq. kilometres (roughly 10,995 sq. miles) and rating because the 14th largest state in Nigeria by space, our governor neglects rural improvement whereas making certain housing estates and procuring malls proliferate in city areas, notably Ibadan. Even Agodi Backyard labelled a ‘inexperienced zone,’ shouldn’t be spared in Makinde’s acquisitions.
“It saddens our hearts that Oyo State presently ranks twenty sixth in WAEC examination efficiency among the many 36 states in Nigeria and has 272,847 out-of-school kids. As an alternative of addressing instructional points, our Governor has chosen to transform the Oyo State Public Library in Dugbe into procuring malls. This implies that he prioritizes mall development over our youngsters’s training”.
Alao additional said that it’s this similar Makinde’s insatiability for acquisition that led to growing the setback for Ibadan Round Highway from an preliminary 75 meters below former Governor Rashidi Ladoja to 500 meters below his tenure, including that this setback will influence over 300,000 residents throughout six native authorities areas.
“The scenario is dire; faculties, gardens, garages, and recreation centres are being transformed into housing estates and procuring malls below Seyi Makinde’s administration. Sadly, none of those developments profit the poor lots of Oyo State—solely the governor and his cronies revenue from these acquisitions.
” We must always remind Governor Makinde that earlier governors didn’t promote or purchase the collective heritage of the individuals for egocentric motives. Now that he’s the governor, he ought to do not forget that posterity will decide him.
As an alternative of addressing the myriad issues going through the individuals of Oyo State, you’ve exacerbated their hardships by means of unpopular insurance policies, together with your insatiable urge for food for buying each private and non-private lands”, he mentioned.
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