Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the alleged takeover by the state authorities of constructions housing public studying and studying amenities within the Dugbe space of Ibadan, the state capital.
APC described the deliberate conversion of the constructions into lock up retailers and purchasing malls as not solely shameful and ill-conceived, but additionally grossly unacceptable.
The get together, in an announcement to LEADERSHIP on Sunday in Ibadan by its State Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare, additionally raised the alarm over alleged sale of the fashionable motor park at Wema Space on New Ife Highway in Ibadan.
APC recalled that the park was constructed by the administration of late Senator Abiola Ajimobi when he was governor of the state.
Citing an unnamed supply, Oyo APC alleged that the Park has been offered to a pastor who presides over a well-liked church located very near the power.
It recalled that not a couple of residents of Ibadan, the state capital, have been surprised lately after they noticed sudden erection of large constructions believed to be non-public enterprise complexes and purchasing malls inside the premises of the Oyo State Library Board during which the the defunct Western Area authorities constructed public libraries and different amenities being put into premium use by college students, researchers, vacationers amongst others till now.
Sadare mentioned, “It’s a unhappy actuality that the buildings which used to function public libraries and archive in Dugbe axis of Ibadan have now paved the way in which for the event of business and enterprise constructions and the implication of that is that training and analysis improvement have been relegated to the background within the state by the identical administration which has refused to handle the problem of poor studying tradition amongst younger college students.
“With out mincing phrases, the phrase ‘library’ is now unusual to many college students in public main and secondary colleges in Oyo State as a result of a authorities doesn’t care to construct such facility or repair the prevailing ones which require good consideration.”
The get together puzzled how a authorities would get up someday and convert public studying amenities and archives into lock up retailers “within the title of getting cash and thereby topic your entire society into the hazard of illiteracy and ignorance.”
It added that, “It has additionally acquired to that stage when silence is not any extra golden as all properly that means people and stakeholders ought to start to ask Governor (Seyi) Makinde questions on why he retains promoting off public heritage and properties which his authorities inherited from earlier administrations.”
In the identical vein, Oyo APC questioned alleged lease or concession of public amenities to these it referred to as proxies “because it occurred to OYSADEP Visitor Home in Saki and Agbowo Purchasing Advanced in Ibadan.”
The APC expressed unhappiness on the actions of the governor and some different people round him, alleging their involvement in mismanagement of land and others assets belonging to the state which it famous to have paved the way in which for the surge within the instances of land grabbing in most components of Ibadan, the state capital.
The principle opposition get together within the state added that there many instances of land grabbing involving some appointees of the governor, PDP lawmakers, serving native authorities officers and chieftains of the ruling get together.
The assertion maintained that “this development has to cease now.”
