61 Communities To Benefit From Osun Development Programme

Sixty-one communities are to benefit from the second phase of the Community Development Programme of the Osun Government.

Prof. Muibi Opeloye, the Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Community Development, disclosed this at a stakeholders’ meeting in Iloko-Ijesa. 

He said that the programme, intended to fast-track development at the grassroots level, was designed to affect all the nooks and crannies of the state. 

He said that the focus of the programme would include poverty alleviation, as well as socio-economic and physical development of the selected communities.

Opeloye said that the 61 communities, which would be covered under the programme’s second phase, would be carefully selected to ensure that the beneficiaries were truly from the grassroots.

He listed the development projects under the programme to include multi-purpose community halls, classrooms, lock-up stalls, open-market stalls and palaces. 

Opeloye, therefore, called on community development experts to come up with purposeful plans of action that would ensure the programme’s success. 

He said that Gov. Olagunsoye Oyinlola would inaugurate the projects in September.