The Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola on Thursday said he
has lived up to the expectation of the majority of the people in the
state, in terms of basic infrastructure and necessary needs of the
people.
He maintained that the major programmes and policies of his
administration, specifically in capital projects and human development
remained of a great benefit to the masses.
The Governor made the remarks while speaking at an Award/ Lecture
programme, organised by the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union
of Journalists in Osun State as part of its Press Week.
“If government lives for only those in government alone, then
government must have lost its value, hence the reason why our government
prefers to make projects that benefits majority of the people of Osun.
“The essence of government is compassion, and the primary role
of government is to be compassionate and be concerned on the welfare and
well-being of the people.
“Development should be for all citizens and not about few
people. It is not about a section of the people but that which will
positively affect all, civil servants who are important, significant and
germane in the society.
“The roads that government built will be used by all, including
the civil servants, the drainages we are building will save the civil
servants from flood, the security we are improving upon to make sure
that life is lived well will equally affect the civil servants. That is
development for all of us”, he said.
Aregbesola, therefore, charged the media to set agenda for new
order that will engender speedy development and sustainable progress.
He opined that the media, in the pre-independence, era set agenda for self rule and independence through media activism.
“Media must set agenda for government. It is unfortunate that
the media has painfully refused to set agenda for the government in a
way that will aid development and wellbeing of the people.
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