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  • Osun govt suspends health insurance, PHC board chiefs 

    Osun govt suspends health insurance, PHC board chiefs 

    The Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has suspended the Executive Secretary of Osun Health Insurance Agency, Dr Niyi Oginni, and the Head of the Primary Health Care Development Board, Dr. Adebukola Olujide.

    The governor also directed investigation of the Public Procurement Agency otherwise known as the Due Process Office to determine the extent of its culpability in the non-remittance of tender fees to the state treasury and contract manipulation in the last four years.

    This was contained in a statement signed by the spokesperson for the governor, Olawale Rasheed, obtained in Osogbo on Saturday.

    The statement further said Adeleke also directed the Public Procurement Agency and other relevant government agency to immediately begin the process to recover all outstanding tender fees on contract awards, and Memorandum of Understanding which the state was a party in the last four years.

    The statement further read in part, “The suspension of the two chief executive officers was sequel to the interim report of the Committee on Contracts and MOU chaired by Hon Niyi Owolade, which indicted the two agency chiefs of gross abuse of office, mismanagement of public resources and serial violations of agency and public service regulations and laws.

    “The Committee in its recommendation had unearthed the unethical practices of the suspended heads of the OSHIA and the Primary Health Care Board as manifested in contract awards without due process, non-remittance of actual tender fee collected from contractors, contracts without value for money like the PHCs, deliberate splitting of contracts.

    “The Committee further found out that the suspended OHIS boss gave contracts to the tune of several millions of naira to his daughter and his private hospital in the agency he is heading, while the acting Career Head in the Primary Health Care lied on oath when she falsely denied knowledge of all contracts of infrastructures and supplies in the PHCs, resorting to bulk-passing and blame trading.”

  • Ilesa cult clash: Osun govt steps in, assures of return to normalcy

    Ilesa cult clash: Osun govt steps in, assures of return to normalcy

    The Osun State Government has said that it will not fold its hands and watch criminal elements unleash terror on innocent and law abiding citizens.

    It also assured that the recent disturbances in Ilesa, which was caused by a bloody clash between two rival cult groups and land grabbers (omo onile), has been brought under control.

    The state government also announced that security operatives have moved into the affected communities, where the clash had spread to, in order to ensure that there is no further breakdown of law and order.

    Making this announcement on Sunday, the Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mrs Funke Egbemode, in a signed statement, urged residents of Omi-tuntun, Ijoka, Sabo, Ilerin-Ijesa areas and other affected communities to go about their lawful activities without fear.

    While disclosing that peace has been restored to the communities, Egbemode added that the areas remain under tight security surveillance till further notice.

    The Information Commissioner, who revealed that those found culpable of disrupting the peace of the state through harassment of innocent citizens or who are in possession of illegal arms would be made to face the consequences of the actions, appealed to parents and guardians to keep close watch on their children and wards.

    “The appeal became inevitable so that they would not be used to perpetrate criminal activities because when the law catches up with them, they will face the full weight of the law,” she said.

    “The government is also imploring residents and citizens to always channel their grievances to the appropriate authorities and resist the temptation of taking law into their own hands.”

    “Osun is a peaceful state, and the government will not condone attempts to jeopardise that peace,” she concluded.

    DAILY POST had earlier reported a clash between two rival groups and suspected land grabbers which resulted in the death of five persons.

    Eyewitnesses revealed that the land grabbers had clashed with the cultists who were relatives of a landed property owner.

    The police have since launched an intensive manhunt for the suspects while some patrol vans of Ijamo and Ayeso Police Divisions in Ilesa were seen patrolling the town to restore peace and order.

  • COVID-19: Osun Govt begins distribution of 6,020 bags of rice to poor

    COVID-19: Osun Govt begins distribution of 6,020 bags of rice to poor

    Gov. Gboyega Oyetola of Osun on Wednesday flagged off the distribution of 6,020 bags of 50g rice to the needy to mitigate the hardship occasioned by lockdown to contain the spread of Coronavirus.

    Oyetola said at the ceremony in Osogbo, that the rice would be distributed to poor people and the needy in the state through door-to-door channel.

    The governor noted that welfare of people in the state was the reason he was in government.

    Oyetola said he would do everything possible to satisfy the interest of the people during the period of the lockdown.

    “You will all recall that, as part of the measures to mitigate the inherent effects of the lockdown on our people, we promised to distribute palliatives to them.

    “We also constituted a 21-man Food and Relief Committee to mobilise resources for the procurement of more palliatives to support the government’s effort.

    “This flag off is a partial fulfilment of that promise and the pledge I made to the people at a press conference three days ago to provide the promised palliatives very soon.

    “This is the intervention of the state government as we await those of the committee which will follow very soon.

    “We shall respond responsibly to your needs as we pull through this period together,” he said.

    The governor said the Cote d’ Ivorie returnees at the isolation centre in Ejigbo were responding to treatment.

    Oyetola said it was his hope that the Coronavirus patients would recover soon to join their families.

    Daybreak reports that Oyetola had on March 29 announced a total lock-down of the state effective from midnight of March 31 to stop the spread of Coronavirus.

    Daybreak also reports that there are 20 confirmed Coronavirus cases in Osun as announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).