AN OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR IBIKUNLE AMOSUN (THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR OF OGUN STATE) ON THE STATE OF WARD 6, IFO LOCAL GOVERNMENT
PREAMBLE
Patriotic Greetings to Your Excellency from the heartbeat of a Patriotic Gateway Indigene on an educational pursuit at the “Big Heart” State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
I bring Greetings and Salutations from fellow Gateway State Citizens and entire South-Western Citizens currently on an Educational pursuit in the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Delta State.
ESSENCE
It is of essence that I write to you due to the dilapidated status of amenities in Ward 6 of Ifo Local Government, Ogun State (where I spring from) because of the unbearable hardship the absence of these amenities had brought on the occupants of the said area.
We had believed in your mandate to keep on the good works you started at the verge of ending your first tenure. The believe in your mandate was functional to the massive response through our votes that secured your second tenure in office and we would hence call your attention to the following irregularities in the state
OBSERVATIONS
In 2014, a move for extension of the road linking Akute to Olambe and Alagbole to Ojodu-Berger was started. This lead to destruction of properties which could not escape the boundary of the expansion scheme. Despite the heavy wreck, we as youths saw no reason to oppose this developmental move as we presume that it is a way out of the heavy gridlock usually experienced in the affected areas.
Swiftly, construction started and the use of the major roads on the construction site was restricted (understandable as a mean to prevent possible exposure to hazards and competition between Contractors and Construction Workers). Commuters and Citizens of the Community had to endure an alternate (in no good shape for movement of vehicles) with the hope of the quick completion of the project that was moving at a steady pace
As the 2015 Election drew nearer, work ceased and we could understood that it was due to the need to tidy up the Tenure Report in preparation for the upcoming tenure
However, since the conclusion of the election, no progress had been made in these regions and we are really suffering as flooding takes over anytime there is rainfall. The incessant heavy rainfall did not help matters as canoes now became a means of mobility of persons across the flooded road
As a matter of emphasis, the only Community Secondary School in Akute popularly known as “A.C.H.S. - Akute Community High School” is nothing to write home about. Education in a conducive environment had been history for the school since flood evicted the school from the proposed permanent site.
To an average student of the said school, Education is more of a struggle for survival of the strongest than a treasure to be valued
OUR PRAYERS
We call on you through the Honorable Commissioner of Works to look into the challenges of the abandoned construction project as swift as possible and long-lasting solutions should be proffered and executed to alleviate the unnecessary endurance in this region which had lasted for too long
We call on you through the Honorable Commissioner of Education to consider the challenges of A.C.H.S. – Akute Community High School and make education worthwhile for the Students who have no other choice than to attend the Government-Subsidized Secondary School
We call on the Honorable Local Government Chairman, Chief (Honorable) Oluwole Enilolobo to arise towards protecting the interest of all residents of the affected area
We call on the Councilor of Ward 6 to take actions to ensure the swift response of all relevant government agencies towards the rehabilitation of the dilapidated status of amenities in the region
We call on all other political stakeholders to do the needful towards solving these challenges that had been a stigma to the entirety of the State-at-Large

ONNI, Joseph Yusuf
Special Adviser on Public Affairs
Office of the Coordinator
National Association of Nigerian Students, Zone B

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