THE Olojudo of Ido-Ekiti, Oba Ayorinde Ilori-Faboro, has charged members of his community, both at home and in the Diaspora, to come home and invest to provide job opportunities for the teeming youths.
Oba Ilori-Faboro gave the charge while addressing newsmen in Ido-Ekiti at the just concluded this year’s Ajodun Ido Oganganmodu.
The royal father said that the Ajodun Ido Oganganmodu is an opportunity for indigenes to come together to raise funds and execute projects in the community.
Speaking on the festival, Chairman of the Planning Committee, Mr. Sola Ogunsina, said: “Ajodun Ido Oganganmodu is an annual event and as a town, we felt we should celebrate ourselves, values, norms and culture. It was aimed at bringing indigenes together to familiarise ourselves.
“It’s not just a routine but we have an opportunity to wine, dine and pay homage to our Kabiyesi and to bring our community to limelight.
“Government is facing lots of responsibilities, hence the need to call ourselves together to develop our town by raising funds to carry out projects to the benefit of the people.”
Also speaking on the long-drawn crisis bedevilling the Federal Teaching Hospital (FETHI) located in the community, Oba Ilori-Faboro, said an end is now in sight to the crisis.
The traditional ruler further explained that a ministerial panel on the lingering crisis that has crippled teaching hospital had submitted its report.
He revealed that the ministerial panel had investigated the crisis in the hospital and that the petitions written against the former Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital had submitted its report.
He said: “The Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, is aware of the problem. Other Obas and I, visited the minister and advised him to set up a panel to investigate the crisis and the panel submitted its report last Wednesday.”
The royal father further advised youths of the town not to allow themselves to be used to foment trouble by some staff members of FETHI, saying it is only where there is peace in the hospital that it can fulfill the vision for which it was established.