By Wole Adedeji, Ilorin
Kwara State before 2019 was almost grounded with virtually structures in all sectors dead, before the advent of the present administrstion in the state.
Kwara State Commissioner for Communication and Culture, Mrs. Abosede Buraimoh, who made this known in Ilorin while speaking with journalists said that good roads, water supply, physical infrasructures, workers’ salaries and welfare, health care services among others, were not the business of the previous government.
Mrs. Buraimoh was speaking during her maiden visit to the members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, along Murtala Road in the state capital.
She told the newsmen that within the last two years of the present government, the story had changed, because the forgotten services in all spheres of life in the state had been restored, as well as new structures being put in place.
According to the commissioner, these provision of services had been made to cut across all sectors and also made to spread throughout the three senatorial districts of the state.
She averred that major roads that were in bad shape before were being rehabilitated; some of them completed, while some were going through new construction outrightly to ease transportation in the state.
Similarly, the commissioner said that government decided to build a multi billion naira fly over bridge along the University of Ilorin road, in Tanke area of the metropolis, to ease the menace of regular traffic hold-ups on the ever busy road.
She further explained that contrary to some opinions that government by doing the fly-over bridge had stopped commercial activities at Tipper Garage instead of boosting it, government had added value to livelihood in the place.
Speaking on the state of Radio Kwara, the Kwara State Television, KwTv, and the Herald newspaper, all owned by the state government and which had gone bad before now, the Communication Commissioner said that the media outfits had been taken from their various stages of commatose of the past, to become more beffiting as media houses.
Mrs. Buraimoh said that unlike before, Radio Kwara used to shut down in the night, but had now been doing a 24-hour broadcast, while a new full radio station had been established at Okuta, in Baruten Local Government to serve the Northern senatorial district, which hitherto been listening to a radio station located in the Republic of Benin due to the far distance of the area to the state capital.
In the area of education, Mrs. Buraimoh said that not less than 600 primary and junior secondary schools had been renovated across the state in addition to carrying out outstanding promotion exercise of teachers,which had been out on hold for many years, as well as prompt payment of salaries and allowances of workers in state unlike before.
She therefore pleaded with the prople of Kwara State to give maximum support to the administration of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq in its quest to right the wrongs of the past and set a new pace of progress in the state.
