Aregbesola signs MoU with London Borough

By Our Reporter




Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Kingdom’s Borough of Southwark.

Aregbesola led a delegation from the state to Southwark, London, to sign the MoU, which establishes a relationship of mutual cooperation to boost economic, educational and cultural growth, among others.

They agreed to the following:

• That both parties will enhance their mutual understanding by establishing the framework to exchange human and material resources on administration, culture, economy, tourism, the arts, technology and other areas.

• That both parties intend to advance their relationship by establishing mutual areas of interest and agreeing on how people, businesses and communities can interact for development.

The agreement was signed by Aregbesola, the Mayor of Southwark and four other senior members of the Borough.

Aregbesola said: “The management of poverty is a general issue with black people. The post 2nd World War situation of Europeans that informed the institutional reforms of Europe is 100 times better than what Africans are presently experiencing.”

He spoke on his administration’s plan to improve the education sector and explained the significance of the items that make up the Osun Flag.

Aregbesola urged Nigerians in the Diaspora to return home with their experience and resources to support the reform process.

Lagosboy:

Buddie, are you in a position to expantiate further on this Mou because it appear very generic to me and i cannot at present find specifics on how it will benefit the state.

Maybe in the areas of staff training in muncipal administration  

mdsocks:

and how many more do we wanna sign? Though it might seem laudable in plain terms,hundreds of these have been signed by past state administrations with nothing meseaurable to show for it.

mdsocks:

and how many more do we wanna sign? Though it might seem laudable in plain terms,hundreds of these have been signed by past state administrations with nothing meseaurable to show for it.

ekt_bear:

Eh. . .

I'm seeing Fayemi making a lot of moves. Reducing the amount of money spent on government (getting rid of all these special advisors and such), calling a panel to reform education, merging the state's universities to cut down adminstrative costs, this herding area so that cattle herders who stray out of it can be arrested and prosecuted, prompt payment of salaries, etc, etc.

Granted, I've not seen Fayemi land any major investments from private business yet. But as far as the administrative side of being a governor? I think he has done quite well in what, 7-8 months on the job?

Aregbesola needs to step it up. . . we cannot afford mediocrity and inaction in Yorubaland.
Sentiment apart this guy is working he employ' 20,000 workers within 3month in office, osun state col of edu and oscotech school fee' have been reduce fee' 28,000 and 55,000 to 2k and 40k resp, he mandated each Lg to cultivate 1hectare of farmland to improve food , aint list all am on phone.
EDIT: typo

Southwark? As in Peckham -

Southwark is not in the UK - Its in Naija but located in the UK.

Yoruba people full dey place - na wayo go dey involved

In specific terms, what will be achieved by the MOU?

**yawns and walks out**

Aregbesola said: “The management of poverty is a general issue with black people. The post 2nd World War situation of Europeans that informed the institutional reforms of Europe is 100 times better than what Africans are presently experiencing.”
He spoke on his administration’s plan to improve the education sector and explained the significance of the items that make up the Osun Flag.
Aregbesola urged Nigerians in the Diaspora to return home with their experience and resources to support the reform process.

Is this costing Osun State any money ? Must some of us just criticise to sound good or for the sake of it ? If the man was wasting money signing 'white Elephant ' project then I would understand . Instead he has signed an MOU with a Borough , employing a lot of Professional Nigerians, in one of the undoubted homes of administrative excellence in the entire universe .

ekt_bear:

@Gbawe: Be real. What sort of useless MoU is this?


Of course it costs Osun money. How many people went with him to the UK? Plane tickets are not free. And wth can this useless borough do? Boroughs are not in the business of giving away lots of valuable stuff for free.

I could see if he was visiting the UK to talk to say a billion-dollar investment fund, maybe to convince them to invest in high-tech farming in Osun. That would be very useful.

Lagosboy:

Buddie, are you in a position to expantiate further on this Mou because it appear very generic to me and i cannot at present find specifics on how it will benefit the state.

Maybe in the areas of staff training in muncipal administration

Gbawe:


This is a tad more strategic and deliberate IMO. Southwark has a large Nigerian population . Naturally many are professionals with valuable skills and experience. This is another way to directly target their input , involvement and patriotic commitment .

hercules07:

I hope those condemning Aregbesola are aware that Osun is number 33 on the list of states receiving allocations, has a large civil service and is bogged down by debts from oyinlola's administration, he is using his security vote and other monies allocated to governors to pay for the 20,000 people he employed, thereby indirectly pumping some money into the hands of the poor, he is also working on the agricultural sector, it is going to take some time but he will get it right.

Lagosboy:

@ Gbawe



However, I personally think he has not achieved much in his seven months of governance, I know PDP messed up the state but there is a proverb that says “ if it is going to rain in the evening we should already be seeing the movement of clouds by the afternoon” . Aregbesola does not have commissioners after 7 months in power. I am aware it is a political issue and they were waiting for the elections to be over so as to see who is available and be awarded positions. In the UK we both know well , opposition parties have shadow cabinets ready to govern at a anytime as they are familiar with what is happening in the government.

No commissioners and SAs in  govt means no policy direction in the state, means when commissioners and SAs are appointed , they will spend another 1 years developing policy direction , means after 2 years proper implementation might begin. It means the first year of the commissioners in power will be doing the same old things Oyinlola´s commissioners were doing in the state.

Aregbesola is going too slow in everything and in my humble opinion talks more than action. He is good guy personally and I like him but I personally think he might be one of the flops after 4 years. My assessment is only based on the discussions I have with people around him and his actions in general. I hope I am wrong and he proves me right because I like him.

Adeoti stressed that Governor Aregbesola’s love for workers welfare since he came into office was unhidden explained that his adminsitration was conscious of the needs and demands of workers promising that their expectations would be met.

Adeoti recalled that Aregbesola made history last December when he became the first Governor in Nigeria to pat workers their 13th month bonus being ten per cent of their monthly basic salary.

He however enjoined the workers to join hands with others in ensuring that the Federal Government carries out a review of revenue sharing formula so that more funds would be accruable to State and Local Governments.

The Governor, in his speech, had recalled how he had on May Day, 2006, in a letter he wrote to the workers of Osun State promised to create 20,000 jobs within the first 100 days of being sworn into office.

His words: ‘You will recall that in my May Day, 2006 message to Workers of Osun State, I promised that our administration shall create 20,000 jobs within the first 100 days of our being sworn into office. We have since inaugurated the hugely successful Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES), a volunteers scheme designed to give jobs to a large number of our unemployed youths’.

The Governor who reiterated other programmes like the Osun Rural Empowerment and Agricultural programme (OREAP) among others explained further that ‘since we came into office, we have carefully evolved series of integrated, people-driven and society-serving programmes and policies designed to achieve abundance of food by directly supporting genuine farmers’ organisations and peasant farmers to unlock the tap of effective wealth creation and distribution of food from farm centres to markets where the products are needed and sold’.

hercules07:

I hope those condemning Aregbesola are aware that Osun is number 33 on the list of states receiving allocations, has a large civil service and is bogged down by debts from oyinlola's administration, he is using his security vote and other monies allocated to governors to pay for the 20,000 people he employed, thereby indirectly pumping some money into the hands of the poor, he is also working on the agricultural sector, it is going to take some time but he will get it right.