Ondo State governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has charged the people of the State to collaborate with his administration in its bid to ensure that the state Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) improves tremendously to a level of comfort, like that of Lagos State.

The governor said it has become imperative for Ondo state government to look inward and improve its IGR for better service delivery to the citizenry, going by dwindling federal allocation to the state.

The governor spoke on Tuesday while receiving the Association of Licensed Private Security Practitioners of Nigeria, Ondo State chapter, who paid him a courtesy visit in his office.

Governor Akeredolu expressed joy that his administration has so far improved its IGR from N700m monthly to over N1.5bn monthly, saying that it is important to think out of the box for the development of the state and the benefit of the people.

He said "We are thinking anew, we are acting anew and government must prioritise. "

Earlier, Mr Mathew Akinbileje, Chairman, Association of Licensed Private Security Practitioners of Nigeria, Ondo State chapter, lauded Akeredolu on the delivery of dividends of good governance to the people of the state as evident in the developmental projects across the state.

He further appealed to the governor to inculcate the association into the state security architecture to aid in intelligence gathering for onward transmission to other security agencies for adequate policing of the state.
Source: https://www.citadel.ng