OYSADA: An Agency With No Objectives, Wasteful Resources Under Gov. Makinde | Raheem Adeniji
The Oyo State Agribusiness Development Agency (OYSADA) is an agency set up to improve the financial portfolio of Oyo state, but as it stands this agency will end up costing the State dearly. As already reported Oyo State may lose out on the $20m World Bank project due to the irresponsibility of its officials.
OYSADA has been given the mandate and almost all the duties of the Oyo State Ministry of Agriculture, but instead of embracing the role and using the opportunity to better a lot of the masses in the State by empowering
the local farmers, particularly the rural farmers, the agency led by its Director General has turned the agency to a family business. It was reliably gathered that the DG personally selects vendors for all projects. And if the deal is not right the vendor is dropped. For an administration that has agriculture as one of the key areas of development to allow one man to have total control makes one question their sincerity.
We were promised that round pegs will be put in round holes, how come a man who has never run a successful agricultural farming project is at the helm of affairs of the agricultural development of a State that prides itself as the food basket of Western Nigeria if not Nigeria as a whole.
The reliance on everything coming out of a research institute by this government is unfortunate. This research institute with a very deep pocket, where trials are allowed, and lessons learned are used for improvement. Oyo State on the other hand is not a research project, there is no room for error because the funds are limited. There must be a balance between research and practical experience. There are farming practices that have served us over time, while we want to improve them we should not discard all the practices.
OYSADA has showed so far that its leadership has little or no practical experience in farming, or how do you explain waiting till September to distribute Fertilisers, seeds, etc to farmers, when these could have been made available earlier in the planting season. HOW do you send youths on a training program in Zamfara and then wait for almost 2 years before setting them up?
Why can’t we develop a well-equipped training center in one of the Farm settlements? Why can’t we have the Ministry of Agriculture working closely with the local farmers
and OYSADA developing policy? Where is the planning, transparency, and division of labor?
Why is OYSADA (ie it’s DG) the be-all and end-all when it comes to Agriculture in Oyo State, particularly with regards to anything financial, even though there is no record of the DG running a private farm or any private
business?
Connecting the dots!!
“Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely”. It is time the State introduces ‘checks and balances.
There was the issue of the prayer rooms in the OYSADA office being closed by the DG. Followed by an ‘international man’ claim, to top professionals that questioned the implementation of NCARES. These point to a man who believes he is above everyone
and can do and speak to people however he likes. This is more than arrogance, it is authoritarian, and it has no place in a democracy.
It was gathered from a reliable source that the majority of activities and responsibilities of the OYSADA personnel have been passed on to outside Staff of a popular research institute in Oyo State or those close to the DG.
Who is Gift Peters? Is she an OYSADA Staff? What is her role?
Who is Margret Folami? (The person who signed the letter that went viral claiming there are the properties for sale in Fasola Industrial Hub).
We need answers before one man turns Oyo State Agribusiness into a family business.
The investigation is ongoing to expose the rot in OYSADA.
WATCH THIS SPACE.
Raheem Adeniji writes from OYSADA,
raheem_oguns2016@gmail.com
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