Abiodun holds town hall meeting on 2023 budget in Remo

By Adeleye Kunle

Ogun State Governor Prince Dapo Abiodun says his administration is currently compiling names of the elderly, the vulnerable and youths that would benefit from the conditional cash transfer scheme in the next 30 days.

The governor stated this at the Town Hall Meeting for year 2023 Budget and Medium Term Expenditure Framework for 2023-2025, for Remo Division, held at the Akarigbo Palace, Sagamu.

According to the governor, the conditional cash transfer is aimed to ease the living of the target beneficiaries, which are part of the state government’s social security intervention

He added that the intervention would be extended to traders to recoup the financial losses they suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The governor, however, called on women in the state to participate in the Oko’wo Dapo scheme, to boost their enterprises.

Abiodun explained that the meeting was to allow for participatory and inclusiveness as it is a key component of budget preparation process that would allow more inputs into the budget.

He stated his administration has involved a wholesome approach in addressing the infrastructural deficit in the state, adding that next 2023 budget would be transitional as it would take the administration to realize it ‘ISEYA’ agenda.

Speaking on some developmental projects that have been executed in Remoland, the governor mentioned Oba Erinwole road in Sagamu, the Hospital road, Market Road, Awolowo Road, Sagamu junction-Iperu-Ode and Ilisan-Ago-Iwoye roads as well as the Cargo Airport at Ilisan, as some of the projects carried out in the zone