(http://www.osundefender.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Seal-of-osun-state-government-300x292.jpg) (http://www.osundefender.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Seal-of-osun-state-government.jpg)The current giant stride being made by the present Osun State government in the areas of youth empowerment and drive towards increase in the state Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), through tourism and agriculture has started to yield dividends.
In the area of youth empowerment, the state has got a N50 billion grant from the World Bank as youth fund. In the area of agriculture, apart from the O-REAP programme, an agreement was signed by the state government with a Korean firm to come and establish industrial farms in the state.
Also in the area of agriculture, the government of Netherlands recently indicated its interest in coming to Osun State, to partner with the state government to take farming to the next level.
Also, the plan of the currentad ministration to boost economic development was engendered by the creation of a new office of economic development and partnership with the appointmentof new director general.
The programme of the present government of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola to fast-track the economic development of the state was also seen vividly recently in the decisions of the state executive council, to review and continue the contracts for some lofty projects of the past administration, such as construction of stadia in the six geo-political zones of the state, free trade zone and construction of the Ido-Osun airport.
The decision of Aregbesola's government to continue the home grown school feeding programme for public primary schools in the state has also been applauded.
With all the programmes that have been lined up by the present government and others that are coming, the stage is set to take Osun State to the next level within the next couple of years.
Osun a dara.
•Awosanmi Samson, Osogbo, Osun State.
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