Residents Say Absence Of OYES Cadets Has Made Osun Become Dirty State
Some among residents of Osun state have condemned Governor Ademola Adeleke administration’s waste management system while faulting the governor’s decision to arbitrarily sack all the volunteers of Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES) shortly after taking office.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned that the residents in question made their views known during Fresh FM’s Oro Oselu programme which was anchored by Alhaji Akinkunmi Alabi.
Fresh FM is a private radio station in Osogbo, the state capital.
They submitted during the call-in radio programme that Osun becoming a dirty state was sequel to the decision to sack the OYES cadets while alleging that the state government suddenly changed the route Mrs Oluremi Tinubu ‘s convoy was supposed to take during her recent visit to Osogbo in order to prevent her from seeing the garbage that had flooded virtually everywhere in the state capital.
‘To be candid, we don’t need to deceive ourselves, the decision to sack the OYES volunteers by the Adeleke government and its failure to replace them almost immediately with the ‘Imole Corps’ has made Osun become a dirty state. As we all know, the roles of the OYES volunteers in the waste and environmental management cannot be overemphasized but since they were displaced and sacked by the Adeleke government, the state has become a dirty particularly the state capital. We knew how Osun state was when these people (OYES cadets) were in place. Our state was clean and well kept, but it is quite unfortunate that since they were sacked, Osun has become something else.
The most surprising part of this was when the First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, visited Osun, the government had to take her through Ring Road just to prevent her from seeing how dirty the state capital was. This is very disheartening and uncalled for. It shows that the state can only be made clean when a visitor is expected. I can remember vividly that the government started tiding up the state capital a few days before her visit and whoever plied the Ringroad where they took the First Lady through would see that till that very day, the government labourers were still busy cutting the grass and cleaning the area.
Apart from this environmental management of a thing, there is other economic value attached to the sack of the OYES cadets. Many of those who were sacked solely relied on the stipends coming from the scheme for survival, no doubt, but since they were sacked, their source of eking out a living had obviously stopped. There is no doubt that those who were sacked had been rendered jobless while the people of the state are facing its consequences on their environment. One would have expected the government to replace them immediately, but it was quite unfortunate that nothing has been done to date.
The question now is, should the government wait until people die before they do the needful? If truly they are genuine and sincere to recruit fresh set of people into the scheme, the Governor Adeleke-led state government does not need to wait until many of them die before they do so because the stipend has its own purpose in the lives of the volunteers else’ one of the residents submitted- Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com. Thank you
