Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde said on Sunday that the Governors of the South West Region have agreed to launch a new security architecture in August.
Makinde, who was speaking at a special thanksgiving service in honour of his mother, Madam Abigail Makinde at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Yemetu, Ibadan, said that Oyo State will equally launch a state-wide security system before his 100 days in office.
A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, quoted Makinde as saying that the Governors of South West states have been meeting to find lasting solutions to the security challenges in the region.
The Governor said: “I and other Governors of the South West, have met on how to launch a new security architecture before the end of August 2019. The first 100 days of this government will be on the 5th of September and before the 5th of September, we will launch a new security architecture in Oyo state.”
Makinde was reacting to a section of the homily by the officiating Clergy, Venerable Samuel Osungbeju, which harped on the rising waves of insecurity in the land.
Makinde, who also took time to dwell on the four key pillars of his administration, including Security, Health, Education and Economy, said that his government would strengthen supervision and monitoring of the implementation of health and education policies.
According to him, the government would also direct energy in the way of job creation to ensure that the teeming population of jobless youths are taken care of.
He said that having cancelled the N3,000 education levy imposed on students by the immediate past administration, his government will ensure strict monitoring of the improved monthly subvention which will soon be provided for the schools.
According to him, the government was intent on ensuring the smooth running of schools but will also put in place a monitoring system that would ensure efficiency.
He said that his administration decided to cancel the levies hitherto imposed on students of public schools to allow many indigent students have access to free education.
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