My Plans For Ibarapa North Local Government- LG BOSS

Adegboyega Ojelere is the caretaker chairman of Ibarapa North local Government, in this interview with our correspondent, He speaks on his plans to develop the local government and his political ambition , Excerpt  

I’m Prince Adegboyega Ojelere, I thank God for giving me the opportunity to become what I am today, it a position I do not deserve but God counted me worthy to be here. Now that I am here I want to serve my people and I know God will help me to elevate their suffering in this local government.

Thus, I have been trying to see some of our leader to know their needs and what they want. We have our programmes which we run, the free health programme, free education, employments and other things like that.

In Ibarapa farming is a major occupation, what are the plans of your administration to develop this sector?

Agriculture is one of our programme we want to embark on and we are proposing to mechanised our agricultural sector. By given farmers tractors and other equipment needed. Also, we want to give farmers fertilizers because fertilizer this days is not easy to come by and even may not be affordable at its present price for our people. We want to get this fertilizers and give it out at a very cheaper rate.

When did the local government want to achieve this?

I have called the director of agriculture in the local government and he has told me that we have to purchase up to five tones of fertilizer and we are also going to supplement this with hoes and cutlasses to be given to the farmers in the local government.

 On electricity, what are you doing to the frequent and long time outage of power in your local government?

On that we the three Caretaker Chairmen in Ibarapa have met and deliberated on how to solve this. We invited the officials of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and they told us what we need to do to put an end to outage of electricity in the land. We try to liaise with the PHCN manager in Ibadan so that we will tap our electricity from Ido district and we will bear the cost and it will not going to cost us less than 10 million naira. And we are ready to do that to avoid outage of electricity or blackout.

We discover that there is no much blackout in Ido axis, compare to where our connection is presently. To buy the poles and the cables to run the connection will cost us 10 million naira and the three local government are ready to paid the cost.

Youths are interested in education anymore, what are you doing presently to get back this lost attention of the youths?

It is not particular to Ibarapa youths alone but it is a general challenge in the country. There are many graduates on the street seeking jobs now. So, these youths are discouraged that if they are asked to go to school and after graduating there is no job. So, why do they have to bother about going to school in the first place. They rather prefer join the local charcoal production crew or become a motorcyclist  and so on.

But we want to encourage them with petty jobs and that is while Oyo state government come up with the Youth Empowerment Scheme of Oyo state (YES O) to absorb 20,000 people. It is in our plan to employ youths so that they can be rest assure that after their education they can get job.

Igangan’s motor park under lock.

We all know what happened during this Akala region we know how they were killing themselves and that is why government bound all of them from carrying out their responsibilities. They don’t help us rather disturbing the peace and the orderliness of the state and the communities. As soon as the embargo is lifted off them at the state level, everything shall return to normalcy.

Otepa bridge collapsing

We plan to do something on that because the Oyo state as instructed us to go out and look for the federal road that needs construction and I have been there to see things myself and we are going to work on it.

Health and welfare

We gave 10,000 to 20 widows and 5,000 to 20 aged people during the visit of the first lady of the state. We are running free health care, even the 3 local government conducted a free medical treatment for people with eyes defect.

Politics, are you interested in contesting the next election?

I am not interested in contesting any elected post. As it comes my way, they ask me to serve them and am doing it. After this if they ask me to contest again, I will find another way to reject it. But if it is the will of God, well we let it be.