Oyo State - Our investment in peace has paid off, says Ajimobi

[OyoState]

The Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has said that the State's heavy investment in peace has paid off greatly with the unprecedented number of investors that have been streaming into the State.

He made this known in a release issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Dr. Festus Adedayo, on the occasion of the World Peace Day.

Ajimobi, who enjoined the people to continually safeguard the state's hard-earned peace of the last two years, said that the peace of the State was an outcome of careful planning and God-endowed leadership.

"When we came into office, Oyo State was like the Hobbesian State of nature where life was nasty, brutish and short. Our people were killed like rats on the streets by politicians who abetted and took partisan sides in the road transport workers' violence. But with the help of God Almighty and the pedigree of the Governor as a gentleman and man of peace, we have been able to bring back the peace that our people deserve," the Governor said.

On what the Government did to restore peace to the State, Ajimobi said his government invested heavily in the maintenance of peace which it believe was the most basic requirement in the task of developing the State.

"To us, peace is the irreducible minimum requirement in the task of developing our state. The basic thing we did was to win the confidence of our people and that of the road transport workers' union and stamp it in their consciousness that we are neither partial nor are we a government that would condone thuggery and violence," the release said.

The Governor also said that the State established the anti-crime outfit called Operation Burst, and had been  spending heavily on security gadgets and equipment.

"All in all, we are happy that God assented to our desire for peace in Oyo State and the dividends of peace are already being reaped by our people. Right now, there is an influx of companies into the State and our people can now sleep with their eyes closed" said the Governor.

Source: Our investment in peace has paid off, says Ajimobi

[Folami David]

Peace is all we need!