as Oyetola marks 3years in office
In State of Osun, somewhat the hind limb or concluding part of the month is curiousest, marked by curiously recurring template for excited public anticipation of government’s bags of food to be carted on free cartages by the residents of the state.
In Osun, the quickest tick-tocks of time under fleeing wings accelerate the second; seconds prompt the minute; minutes spawn the hour; hours procreate the day; days translate to the week; and weeks catalyze to the month, with the month’s hind leg come the Osun people prying, inquisitive, snoopy, eye ping-prongs on the state foodATM, dropping 5kg food bags, monolithic and pluralistic and the vulnerable residents of the state draw or pick free bags of food homebound, homeward every month. It is tagged Osun Food Support Scheme.
And between the inaugural edition of the scheme, April 2021 and now, November, a total of 240,000 vulnerable households across the state had been reached, using the World Bank Social Register to ensure fair disbursement of free food.
But any compliments or gains of the scheme a couple of months after inauguration?
Armed with the scheme, Governor Gboyega Oyetola, in apparent sensitive response to the Osun residents who became fatigued, jaded, dulled and assailable to the opulent, affluent and rich neighbours in the backwash of the COVID-19 pandemic, picked the long term battle against the impact of the global disease on the subsistence and sustenance of life and living in Osun by making free food needed to stay alive available to the vulnerable month in, month out.
The Oyetola evolution of monthly free bags of food without payment, the first of its kind in the political economy of Nigeria has continued to cause positive social relationships in Osun; produce significant effects on the quality of individual life of beneficiary with life expectancy prolonged or elongated; generate psychological relaxation; improve feelings of purposeful meaningful life; restraint moral depravity, vice squad and marriage dissolution; curb couple bifurcation or breakup and family fractionalization; and make headway against social impoverishment, street beggary and mental outrage, sensation or burning senses, all plausibilities interconnected as gainful aftermath, commendatory outgrowth or upshot of the state food support scheme.
Other gains, holistically, the well being of the Osun economy is effectuated, induced and the psychological, physical, spiritual, financial and social wellness of the state, boosted by food support scheme, with the Osun business men and women in the distributive economy of the state profoundly drawing on the accruals from the scheme’s purchases. That’s what Oyetola meant when he stated, “the administration’s ultimate goal, apart from feeding the vulnerable, is also to boost local economy in the long run.”
The November edition of the state monthly food support came with a thrill, a strategic innovation. Mr. Governor, an eager beaver, always eager to do something extra, and an enthusiastically conscientious hard worker, ever consistently signposted by the three legged justice, equity and fairness, prerequisite to his balance and spread of government policies, programmes and projects in the state, took free bags of food to public markets in the state to ensure that, additionally the masses in the grassroots benefit directly or indirectly from the food palliative scheme.
Operationally, the market outreaches have the chances of increased beneficiaries with an estimated 1,500 bags of food for free distribution at markets per senatorial per month, making a total of 4,500 bags of food to go for free monthly in the 3senatorial districts of Osun. All of that, the market version of the scheme, sharply contrasting to the routine 30,000 bags that traditionally go the 30LGAs in the state, meant for the critically vulnerable Osun residents, also every month, November being the 8th edition.
In November alone, twenty (20) of such popular, crowd pleasing, sprawling markets in the Osun three (3) senatorial districts were visited. And the ponderous roll out of the populace at the various distribution of free bags of food market outreaches pointed up Oyetola as beloved in the state who has crossed the rubicon and clinched the people’s mandate to carry on as Governor beyond 2022 for another term in office.
Oyetola is a trailblazer in the instance, Of course, yes! It is not false to describe the state food support scheme as the first in the country and it would not be immodest to say, he’s the first to start it on monthly regularity, with catholic zeal, a scheme which patrimony is now surfeitered by the vulnerable in the state and never in a month operated in fits and starts to any tragic abandonment in the throbs of tabula rasa.
As a matter of fact, the monthly distribution of the state free bags of foods has not been riddled with confusion and tardiness to drive it into any dire straits and create ripples that could erupt into panics or stampede to make the scheme an horse on trial. No sigh of relief has ever been sought. And the debut of a novel free food distribution market networks this November practically made the really fundamental masses pop out and successfully collected bags of food. No one person lay disconsolate as none scrambled painting, hyperventilated to have wrinkles in the face.
OLUSESI writes at the Foot of Most Merciful. Most Gracious. All-knowing
isaacolusesi@gmail.com
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