Osun State governor, Mr Gboyega Oyetola on Thursday announced to upgrade of the Osun College of Education, Ilesa to a fully-fledged University
The governor made this known at the inauguration and handing over of the Ijesa land and geriatric centre to Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile-Ife.
The governor added that “we have also engaged one of the nation’s best corporate Consultants, KPMG, to work out the sustainability plan of the upgrade.
“Having said that, it is now my privilege and singular honour to inaugurate the Ijesa land Geriatric Centre and dedicate it to the glory of God and the benefit of mankind.”
On the inauguration of the Ijesa land Geriatric Centre, Oyetola said, it is a product of the magnanimity of the Ijesa people through the Ijesa Health is Wealth Project and that the Centre is another testament to the generosity and abiding passion of the great Ijesa people to add value to the lives of our people through the contribution of salient needs.
“For this, on behalf of the Government and the good people of Osun, I would like to express the deepest gratitude to the people of Ijesa land and particularly thank our highly-revered Royal Father, His Imperial Majesty, Owa Obokun Adimula of Ijesaland, Oba (Dr.) Gabriel Aromolaran, for his inspiring and productive leadership.
“The Ijesa Geriatric Centre is a welcome development as it brings us closer to our people in specialised geriatric care. This is against the background of the truism that being old is not a disease and that senior citizens have a right to medical care as indeed the younger population.
“Realising their invaluable role in the development of the society, our senior citizens should deservedly be treated with warmth, utmost respect and be provided with a truly-enabling environment where they can interact with healthcare professionals with dignity.
“Doing so is instructive, as it shows that our senior citizens are valued for their contributions to the development of our society. This is the need that this Geriatric Center has come to fill, and we cannot thank you enough for making it possible, only ten months after its construction was commenced.
“Worth a billion Naira, this Centre is an expansive facility that comprises the general outpatient building, administrative building, ophthalmology and dental building, physiotherapy, theatre complex, inward among other essential facilities that will provide the best of medical care for our senior citizens.”
While responding to Oyetola’s speech, Asiwaju of Ijesa land who is the project Initiator, Yinka Fasuyi, appreciated the governor for heeding their age-long prayers of upgrading a 44 years College of Education to a full-fledged University.
He said, “You have honoured us and God will continue to honour you. You have listened to our requests, our overdue agitations and God will not forsake you. You have rekindled our hope as Ijesa people and you have made us proud with this declaration.
“You shall continue to be celebrated. I want to assure you that Ijesa land shall vote massively beyond your imagination in return for your kind gesture to us. It is only God in His infinity mercy that will compensate you.”
Earlier in his remarks, the Owa Obokun of Ijesaland, Oba Gabriel Adekunle Aromolaran, thanked all illustrious and eminent Ijesa people both home and in the diaspora for the initiative, support, commitment and the degree of responsiveness to the developmental agenda of Ijesa land.
According to the revered monarch, the project has once again attested to the commitment of the Ijesa people to igniting the contagious relentless efforts toward breaking the paradigm for community development.
Oba Aromolaran, who commended Governor Oyetola for his tremendous achievements in the various sectors of the economy, said it was a thing of joy that the new health facility was constructed to complement his monumental strides in the health sector.
“It is noteworthy to openly declare that the primary concern of the entire Ijesa people through the Ijesa Community Development Assembly is the smooth, efficient, effective and prudent management of the Ijesa land Geriatric Centre and where necessary the people of Ijesa would always provide complementary support for the sustainability of effective service delivery to the elderly people,” the monarch added.
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