The Ogun State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Chief Jide Ojuko has commissioned 10 Lock-Up shops at Ijebu Mushin in Ijebu East Central LCDA, Ojowo with a charge to other Local Government authorities to emulate and ensure the sustainability of the newly created 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) for the continuation of more developmental projects at the grassroots level.
Ojuko while meeting the local government staffers, party leaders and market women at the commissioning of the shops commended the Council for leaving good legacies for others to emulate.
“Today, again, we are witnessing another landmark achievement in the creation of the LCDAs, which is the commissioning of lock-up shops. It is no doubt that the shops will improve the Internally Generated Revenue of the LCDA as well as serve as catalyst to economic growth of the area.
” Permit me to quickly go into history, (as) efforts by our Progressive leaders and former Governors, late Chief Olabisi Onabanjo and Aremo Olusegun Osoba, to create LCDAs were not successful due to change in government.
"The LCDAs have now come to stay against all odds. The good people of the state at the local level are now enjoying the dividends of democracy, as different developmental projects such as schools, boreholes, bridges and grading of roads are being carried out at different communities" Ojuko noted.
Earlier, in his welcome address, the chairman of Ijebu East Central LCDA, Barr. Bayo Oshikomaya pointed out that the creation of the additional 37 LCDAs had no doubt brought the government closer to the people of the State noting that they had benefitted from governance more than before .
Osikomaya added that the market was the number one source of revenue for his administration and it has influenced his decision to construct the lock -up shops among several other projects to make life easier for residents.
He pointed out that the building of the shops took a few months and was specifically located at Mushin because of the importance of the market not just to the people of the local government, but the whole of Yorubaland. towards ensuring development at every nooks and crannies of the state.
The chairman also appealed to the allotees to ensure that the shops were maintained and rents paid as at when due to enable government embark on other projects and deliver more on other dividends of democracy.
He added that the market was a rallying point for traders from Lagos, Oyo, Edo, Ondo and Ogun states with the highest level of revenue to its local government, which was also a pointer to its construction.
The Iyaloja of Ijebu East LCDA , Chief Mrs. Janet Abiodun, in her response was full of praises to the Chairnan, Barr. Bayo Oshikomaya and the Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, thanking them for the efforts to make life easier for its citizenry adding that thier administation had touched lives at the grassroots.
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