The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, midweek issued an Executive Order establishing the Ogun State Social Investment Programme.
While signing the Order at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, Governor Abiodun said that it would help to alleviate poverty and hunger by ensuring equitable distribution of resources to the vulnerable, the poor and the widows, amongst others.
The governor stated further that the order would help to improve the social economic conditions of the citizens of the state at the grassroots, adding that the Order is of particular importance in view of the economic recession world over and particularly the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The State helmsman emphasized that his administration is domesticating its own version of the programme which had already been done by the Federal Government through the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs.
Informing that the Committee would be chaired by a reputable indigene of the state with high integrity and relevant experience, mr governor maintained that other members of the Committee would comprise of representatives from the Ministries of Finance, Community Development and Cooperatives, Youths and Sports, Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Women Affairs and Special Duties.
The Governor who stressed that the Committee would be answerable to the office of the governor, submitted that “the committee’s mandate shall be to implement social investment programmes established by this executive order to identify and stimulate the beneficiaries of the Social Investment Programme, to set guidelines and modalities for the effective execution of the social investment programme
Also , to promote public awareness of this programme, to carry out other functions and engage relevant personnel as may be necessary to implement the social investment programme”.
