The lawmaker representing Iseyin, Itesiwaju, Kajola and Iwajowa at the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Najemdeen Oyedeji, popularly called ‘O’Shine’ has announced that the rehabilitation of Okeho-Iganna road in Kajola local government will commence in March 2025.
The road, according to him will ease the traveling burden of residents of Okeho, Iganna and other communities bordering the local government and assist business interests get their goods to the cities in good time.
The Honorable stated this on Tuesday morning during an interactive session he had with media practitioners at Okeho, Kajola local government, saying that the plan to turn various big farms across the federal constituency to farm estates has reached implementation stage.
Oyedeji pointed that his plan for his constituents is to build on the success of Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde’s agenda of turning big farm settlements to farm estates, thereby promoting the efforts of farmers to increase their yields and attract more youths into agriculture.
“I want to expose the major farm areas in our federal constituency to to development, this is why we have done all necessary to start work on the rehabilitation of the Okeho-Iganna road, which will start by March this year.
“In the next three and a half years, we are going to be putting in many incentives to make our farmers not to have any reasons to abandon their farms anymore, we have gathered enough data about the sizes of major farms in the four local government areas that constitute this constituency and we will start by making the incentives like portable water, financial empowerment, motorable farm roads available in earnest.
“We will capitalize on opening up the feeder roads, fix many moribund water projects so that our farmers will not drink from the same source with cattle again.
“In the area of security, we know that the security agencies have their control bases from the top at Abuja but we will work with stakeholders to pre-empt crisis between farmers and herders with frequent dialogues among farmers, herders, community elders and other stakeholders, with this in place, there will be no crisis.”
On education development, Hon. O’Shine declared that 138 students from the constituency will benefit from his special scholarship scheme in the next three years.
He hinted that a scholarship award board that will have no political coloration will be given the task of screening beneficiaries, who he said will be those in genuine need of the support.
He went further to state that he has concluded plans to give forty-two students scholarship to study at the SAF Polytechnic, Iseyin, annually while each of the University of Ibadan, The Polytechnic Ibadan, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso (LAUTECH) and the Emmanuel Alayande University of Education, Oyo will have a candidate each annually as well.
“In the next three years, we will be giving scholarships to forty-two students annually at SAF Polytechnic, one each for University of Ibadan, Polytechnic Ibadan, LAUTECH and Emmanuel Alayande University of Education, giving the total of 138 beneficiaries in the three years, by God’s grace.”
While promising to put 80% of solar boreholes in the farm settlements, he said 20% of the projects will be sited at towns around the federal constituency, while a cooperative farmers society will be established to give financial assistance to farmers.