Over 100 communities in Ifelodun local government area of Kwara state have received a boost with developmental projects to make life better for the residents.
The Executive Chairman of Ifelodun Local Government, Alhaji Abdulrasheed Yusuf, made the disclosure while briefing newsmen on the activities of his administration in the last one year, while featuring on a Newskeg of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the NUJ, Kwara state council, held in Ilorin.
He listed several completed projects, to included the construction and renovation of primary healthcare centres in Oke-Ode, Labaka Oja, Adanla, Ofarese, Ijaya-Share, and Ajapa, as well as the provision of medical equipment and supply of essential drugs across council health facilities among others.
Yusuf explained that the council has also sponsored 41 students to study health-related courses at the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, with plans to absorb them into the local health sector upon graduation.
He said the administration has graded and rehabilitated several township and inter-community roads such as Isanlu-Isin–Kajola–Oke-Oyan, Umupo–Chahiyan, Igbaja–Ofarese, Oke-Ode–Afon junction, and Oke Oyan–Oro-Ago, and the installation of solar-powered streetlights in over 20 communities to boost security.
The chairman revealed that more than 30 solar-powered boreholes and hand pumps were installed and others rehabilitated in wards across the council.
He noted that the council has provided motorcycles to police stations , recruited and trained local guards, and issued identity cards to traditional rulers and their aides to help check infiltration by non-state actors.
Yusuf said the administration has revived four abandoned tractors, and distributed farm inputs, as well as trained 40 livestock farmers on modern practices, and the construction of new classrooms.
Earlier in his address of welcome, the
Chairman of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the NUJ, Kwara state council, Abdulhakeem Garba, commended the council for providing dividends of democracy to the people at the grassroot.
He assured him of the determination of the media professionals to showcase the activities of the council to the wider world to enable others emulate the good work.
