A group in Ogun State, the Ogun Grassroots Development
Awareness Forum, has described the immediate past Commissioner for Finance in
Ogun state and one of the ministerial nominees waiting to be screened by the
National Assembly, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, as an innovation-driven goal getter that
Nigeria needs in her march to a new culture of governance that is based on
integrity and performance.
In the same vein, the group has called on Governor Ibikunle
Amosun to sustain the culture of prudence, innovation and accountability in the
management of the state’s finance which was one of the hallmarks of his
administration in his first term of office, if he hoped to remain eternally
relevant in the history of the state.
In a media chat in Lagos, Chairman of the Forum, Adekunle
Abegunde said Adeosun’s achievements stand tall as an important member of
Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s crack team of experts and technocrats whose
invaluable contributions in the governor’s first term catapulted the state on
the national development index.
He observed that the governor’s well documented towering
achievements in his first term of four years in the area of infrastructural
renewal, expansion and maintenance across the state owed primarily to the
turnaround in the state’s internally generated revenue capability which the
ex-Finance Commissioner supervised.
“All well meaning Ogun indigenes today praise governor
Amosun for what he achieved in his first term, especially the accelerated
renewal of social infrastructure in the state. Without a turnaround in the
state’s IGR profile, that would not have been possible. So, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun,
as the Finance Commissioner then deserves commendation for working
professionally, passionately and selflessly under the governor’s watch to
establish prudence, accountability, innovation and right prioritizing as
principles of financial management in the state. The state and its indigenes
can never forget this achievement of hers”.
Abegunde noted further that the Ogun Home Owners Chatter was
yet another innovative project of the Amosun government that Kemi Adeosun
executed and supervised in a professional manner that indigenes would forever
remain grateful for. According to him, the project has helped many property
owners in the state to perfect their ownership documents with the government in
a very affordable and stress-free manner.
While commending President Muhammadu Buhari for finding the
former commissioner worthy of higher assignment at the national level, Abegunde enjoined Governor Amosun to throw
up a few other unique talents in his new cabinet so that the state’s
development journey under him could receive fresh impetus.
“Governor Amosun has shown himself to be a good manager who
is adept at throwing up great talents. He did that in his first cabinet. He
should do it again. Ogun has given to Nigeria a very bright, fresh and
passionate individual which the governor threw up in his first term. As indigenes
of the state, we are proud of Kemi Amosun going to work with President
Buhari. It is up to Governor Amosun to
ensure that Nigeria’s gain is not Ogun state’s loss”.
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