Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, yesterday lauded Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko for transforming the Sunshine State. The Minister said this at the inauguration of the state’s residency card initiative, known as Kaadi Igbe-ayo. He noted that Mimiko’s programmes in the last four years were in tandem with the welfare initiatives of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
He said, “During the build-up to the October 20, 2012 governorship election in the state, I wondered how some people, who boasted that they would uproot the Iroko would achieve their ambition by using just brooms.
“I thought they would bring bulldozers and caterpillars to cut down the Iroko in Ondo, but they smashed the deep rooted tree with mere brooms until the Iroko fell on them and smashed their brooms to shreds.”
Maku urged the people of the state to support the Mimiko’s led administration in order to ensure the success of its policies, which would make life meaningful for them.
He challenged Mimiko not to be excited by the commendations that greeted his first term but to deliver more dividends of democracy to the people.
Mimiko said the Kaadi Igbe ayo initiative was in fulfilment of his 2009 inauguration promise to provide efficient service delivery to the people.
He said, “I want to know all of you by name. I want to know where you live. I want to know what you do for a living. I want to be able to talk to you one on one. I want to know the exact number seeking employment and I want to know what type of qualifications you have.
“I need to know these and many other things to be able to catalyse the joint processes and mechanism for the realisation of our collective dream.
“The overall functional purpose and relevance of what we have come here to inaugurate today therefore, lies in the possibility of using the Kaadi Igbe-Ayo as the electronic vehicle to achieve the above stated goals.
“Our gathering today is to formally introduce a universally game-changing concept in the fields of democracy, governance and commitment to service. Together in the last four years plus, we recorded quite a number of unprecedented achievements in the history of our great state, the federation, and even the world.” He avowed.
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