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  • ‘Shocking’, ‘strange’, Osun Government reacts to killing of six family members by unknown gunmen

    ‘Shocking’, ‘strange’, Osun Government reacts to killing of six family members by unknown gunmen

    The Osun Government has condemned the killings of six family members at Wasinmi in Irewole Local Government Area of the state by unknown gunmen.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the Police Command in the state had confirmed the killings which took place on Saturday night.

    Mr Benedict Alabi, the state Deputy Governor, who paid a condolence visit to the bereaved family on Sunday, described the killings as disheartening and unfortunate.

    Alabi, who was received by scores of family members of the deceased and some leaders in the community, described the incident as a case of brutal assassination.

    The deputy governor assured the community that the perpetrators would be brought to book in no distant time.

    He added that the state government had ordered the security agencies in the state to fish out the perpetrators and bring them to justice.

    The deputy governor was accompanied by the state Commissioner for Finance, Mr Bola Oyebamiji and the Special Adviser to the Governor on Security, Mrs Abiodun Ige.

    He urged members of the community and the indigenes of the state to remain calm, while assuring them that the government would continue to provide security across the state.

    “This is a very unfortunate incident and we are very sad about it as a government.

    “It is shocking and strange to our communities.

    “We are here on behalf of the state government to sympathise with you and we are assuring you that those criminal elements that perpetrated this evil act would not go scot-free.

    “We have also ordered security agencies to swing into action and fish them out to face the wrath of the law”, the deputy governor said.

    He, however, called on members of the community to assist security agents with useful information that could speed up the arrest of the killers.

  • FG releases N80m feeding grant to Osun govt

    …as stakeholders expresses mixed feelings concerning the feeding programme

    The Federal Government will this week release N80 million to the Osun State Government as part of grants for its school feeding programme.

    The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande had disclosed in a statement made available to DAILY POST on Monday, stating that five states of Osun, Ogun, Oyo, Ebonyi, and Enugu, would be benefiting states in the second phase of the scheme.

    According to him, Anambra state flagged off the feeding programme earlier in 2016, bringing the implementing states of the scheme to six.

    Akande disclosed that payment for the Conditional Cash Transfer programme has commenced in all the nine pilot states including Bauchi, Borno, Cross River, Ekiti, Kwara, Kogi, Niger, Osun and Oyo.

    Meanwhile, some stakeholders in the educational sector have expressed mixed feelings over the grant.

    According to a report by Daily Post, a retired Principal in one of the Public School in the state, Mr Sunday Anjorin, lauded the federal government’s initiative, as he commended Governor Rauf Aregbesola for setting the pace for school feeding initiative.

    Anjorin added that although, the federal government intervention is commendable, there is still more to be done in order to meet up with the huge financial responsibility Osun government incurred in the course of feeding the pupils at the elementary schools.

    He observed that the scheme has enhanced the rate of enrollment in schools, urging the federal government to spread the gesture to all the states of the federation.

    However, a member of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Mr Bamidele Idowu has advised the state government to be more transparent and accountable in the finance of the school feeding scheme, saying the figures claimed by O’Meal, the agency in charge of the school feeding system in Osun is “ambiguous.”

    Idowu also charged the agency to use the federal government’s grant judiciously for the benefit of the pupils.

  • N5000 Stipend: Osun Govt. identifies 7,993 beneficiaries

    The Osun Government on Friday said 7,993 households from the state would receive N5,000 monthly stipend of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme of the Federal Government, as the payment commences in the state.

    Mrs Adeola Oyebamiji, the Head of the State CCT Office in the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Affairs, made this known to newsmen in Osogbo.

    Oyebamiji said the federal government had commenced the roll out of cash and the first batch of beneficiaries were drawn from Ife North and Ila Local Government areas.

    She said that 12 local government areas, Atakunmosa East, Ejigbo, Oriade, Olorunda, Ife North and Ife South, Boluwaduro, Isokan, Aiyedire, Ola Oluwa, Ila and Ifedayo, had been selected for the programme.

    Oyebamiji said the households had been identified as vulnerable and the poorest of the poor in the state, adding that the programme will complement that of the state government in banishing poverty.

    She said that the single register for the programme was compiled by the State Operations Coordinating Unit of YESSO and handed over to the State Government for implementation and subsequent payments.

    Oyebamiji confirmed that with the commencement of the payment, each identified beneficiary would collect N10,000 being stipends for December 2016 and January 2017, while other subsequent payments would be paid into their Access Bank accounts.