OYCSDA Invests in 30 Communities with 60 New Micro-Projects.
By Adewale Owoade
The Oyo State Community and Social Development Agency (OYCSDA) has disbursed funds to 30 communities across the state for various micro-projects.
The projects, which are based on the communities’ felt needs, include school construction or renovation, community health center construction or renovation, erosion control, and provision of portable water.
In his keynote address at the Training and Disbursement of Funds ceremony, held at the House of Chiefs in Ibadan, the Chairman of OYCSDA, Hon. Abideen Adeaga, praised Governor Seyi Makinde for approving the funding of the micro-projects.
Adeaga said the projects would expand access to basic healthcare, education, good roads, and portable water, in line with the state’s roadmap to sustainable development.popular manifesto tagged ‘Oyo State Roadmap to Sustainable Development <span;>2023-2027<span;> (Omituntun-2.0).
”In line with the Governor’s strategic moves, OYCSDA is intervening in communities that prioritized culverts and line drainages for improved access roads, building or renovation of school buildings and community health centers, this way Governor Seyi Makinde’s administration is creating employment, conducive teaching and learning environment, access to portable water to defeat waterborne diseases as well as improved access to health care services by all and sundry.
“Permit me to recount that when the OYO-CARES took off officially in year 2022, the budget could only cover forty-eight communities, then the maximum grant to communities was #15million, but His Excellency has magnanimously increased it to #18million when inflation affected cost of materials.
“Despite the intervention at the planned forty-eight communities, the Governor approved supplementary funds for implementation of micro-projects in Sixty-six communities, bringing it to a total of 114 communities benefiting from 256 micro-projects across the State.
“In a surprising turn, Governor Makinde recently approved the release of more funds for intervention in additional thirty communities in a move to ensure more people and more communities have improved access to micro infrastructure services that improve their lives.”
The Deputy Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly,and also the Chairman, House Committee on Project Monitoring, Rt. Hon. Abiodun Fadeyi, urged the benefiting communities to ensure due diligence and probity during project execution, warning that the State’s anti-corruption agency would be monitoring the projects.
The Chairman of Agbedo Community Management Committee, Prof. Israel Adesiyan, appreciated OYCSDA for alleviating the conditions of various communities in Oyo State and prayed for the success of Governor Makinde’s administration.
