Set Up Committee To Dust Off, Activate 2014 Confab Report Without Delay-Kwara Yoruba Forum Tells President Tinubu
A group, the Kwara Yoruba Forum (KYF), has emphasized the significance of the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference while also stressing the need for President Bola Tinubu to ‘dust off’ the report and ‘activate’ it without delay.
The group also noted that there should be no procrastination in this regard adding that the president should quickly constitute a committee that will help to bring the recommendations of the confab into reality.
Professor Samuel A. Ibiyemi ,who said this during the press conference held by leaders of the group at the Circular Hotel, Ilorin on Monday which was attended by journalists including Team@orientactualmags.com, urged President Bola Tinubu to set up a committee that will bring the recommendations of the confab to life and activate it before the 2027 General Election.
The group also canvassed the idea of a return to regional system of government that will be based on the six geo-political zones adding that this will not only ensure efficiency but also reduce cost of governance.
Professor Samuel A. Ibiyemi also said the Kwara Yoruba Forum has a coordinated community, social and cultural development initiative that will have a minimum of 50 hectares of land allocated for farming in each of the local governments with the provision of irrigation system for an all-year-round farming.
The land will according to him be made available to unemployed young graduates with community elders serving as mentors while this will be a source of fund for other programmes.
‘There shall be a livestock farm and an agro industrial center to add value to each crop and impact on export opportunities. An immediate project for each LG council is to apply as individual or as a senatorial district to benefit from the grow green project of the First Lady, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu. Our plans to grow a minimum of 250 seedlings of thevetia and moringa trees along each band of arrival in the LGA and at least one item along the main road in the LGA.
About 100 seedlings of cashew and shea by 1-1-26. Each of the land stretch of each of the plantations shall be kept clean by planting legumes and vegetables. This variety of thevetia, moringa and cashew tree will be ready for harvest of their produce by the beginning of rain in 2028’ Ibiyemi, a retired Professor of Chemistry, added.
Also speaking, Chairman, Kwara Yoruba Forum (KYF), Chief Sunday Olabisi Abogunrin, who called for unity among Yoruba-speaking people in Kwara State and those who are in Kogi State, said having lived together for years, it is important to present a common front and promote ‘what binds us together’ cognizant that ‘we have common culture and language’.
He also said it is important to have an arrangement that will have the Yoruba-speaking people in Kwara and Kogi states together as a state or a part of a region.
He listed local governments with Yoruba-speaking people in Kwara State to include Ilorin West, Ilorin East, Ilorin South, Moro, Asa, Oyun, Offa, Ekiti, Oke-Ero, Isin, Ifelodun, and Irepodun.
Chief Sunday Olabisi Abogunrin also urged government at all levels to scale up efforts to tackle insecurity in Kwara and Kogi states while condemning the naming of the Government House, Ilorin after late Alhaji Ahmadu Bello-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 08035023079, 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you
