Priscilla Ediare, Ado-Ekiti
Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi revealed that his administration is taking steps to ensure justice is brought to justice for those suffering from police brutality in the state by establishing an investigation and reimbursement organization for those suffering from SARS and similar abuses in the state.
He also unveiled his administration’s plan to review the creation of local council development areas (LDCs) to expand the base and bring people’s governance closer in combination through the promise of sending an invoice for prompt consideration.
Fayemi spoke Friday as he presented the State of state to the state assembly space, Ado-Ekiti to state legislators and other prominent figures on the occasion of activities commemorating his two years in office.
The State of State was engaged in assistance through Deputy Governor Otunba Bisi Egbeyemi, First Lady Erelu Bisi Fayemi; Member of the House of Representatives, Honorable Femi Bamisile, members of the Executive Council of the State and classical leaders led by the President of the State Council of Obas / Alawe of Ilawe Ekiti, Oba Adebanji Alabi and leaders of the network.
Governor Fayemi, who had spoken earlier in the morning to a giant crowd of ENDSARS protesters in Ado-Ekiti’s Fajuyi district, said his management had set up a panel to read about cases of human rights violations and brutality through the dissolved team.
He said: “According to the council of the National Economic Council, today I have set up a commission of inquiry and reimbursement for victims of SARS-related abuses in the state.
“The committee will review all verifiable cases of sarS brutality and death and ensure that SARS offending officials are duly known and prosecuted, while those affected or their families receive good compensation.
“Panel members will come with a retired Supreme State Court that will issue a ruling as president and representatives of civil society organizations, adding youth groups.
“The Honourable Attorney General will publish more details, adding data on how our citizens can participate in the panel.
“My management will continue to be an active player in this national dialogue; we warned that we knew the merits of police decentralization in Nigeria. We also proposed that the Nigerian Police Council be enshrined in Nigeria’s statutes to be more active and normal in its police supervision function.
“Regardless of our varied condition, however, what we have is not unusual is our collective preference for a police establishment working to gain advantages from all Nigerians, regardless of age, gender, economic prestige or any other difference. other people deserve not to be criminalized or stigmatized just for what they wear, the car they drive or the device they are carrying,” he added.
Responding to riots over a new stopover in local council progression spaces (LCDs) that were dissolved through the administration of the afterlife, Governor Fayemi said his administration, after reviewing the progression, re-examining the factor and sending a bill to the Assembly for consideration.
“After many consultations, my management to review the creation of local government progression zones,” he said.
“I have directed the Honorable Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice to resubmit a bill for the creation of local government progression zones in the state of Ekiti for prompt review through the State Executive Council and subsequently for legislative review.
“Can I take this opportunity to ask this House to give the bill the pressure it deserves,” the governor said, with thunderous applause from the public.
Introducing his administration’s scoreboard for more than two years, backed by applicable statistics, the governor said significant progress had been made in implementing life-changing policies and projects for other people in Ekiti despite existing economic challenges.
The Governor noted that the five pillars of governance, namely agriculture and rural development, governance, infrastructure and trade development, the wise economy and social investment, were being applied diligently to the people.
It noted that the first year in the workplace was used to lay a forged basis for legacy projects now at various stages of completion, adding that the demanding economic situations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic had led to the revision of the 2020 budget. .
The Governor said: “Despite the demanding situations posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we remain committed to completing all the unfinished projects of past administrations and continuing with the ones we launched.
“We have done this to demonstrate that whatever our partisan tendencies, the state of Ekiti remains our non-unusual heritage, and we will have to do everything we can to lay the foundations for sustainable development.
“Today I face you with contained joy but with the company’s conviction that despite the demanding situations we have faced over the next year, we are making visual progress and stable progress towards our goals for Ekiti.
“I am pleased to announce that, despite the economic realities of the year under review, we are making remarkable progress with our Agro-Cargo airport project.
“All the documents are being perfected and the paintings are advancing on the site. Ekiti Agro-Cargo Airport remains a priority for us and we expect it to be completed in record time before my term ends.
The governor has announced that his management will soon submit an invoice to the Assembly requiring all successive governments to provide an annual state speech to receive attention through the House of the State Assembly.
Previously, The President of the House of the Ekiti Assembly, Rt. Hon. Funminiyi Afuye, said that the achievements recorded through Fayemi’s leadership in two years “are too visual to be ignored even by morbid critics. “
The Chair congratulated the governor for ensevering smart governance for others despite the lack of allocation of the Federation’s account and having put the State on the path to sustainable development.
It promised the Assembly’s commitment to a legislative agenda that would resonate with the Fayemi administration’s five-pillar agenda.
Bamigbola Gbolagunte, candidate in the Akure of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the October 10 elections for governorArray. .
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