The Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Chief (Mrs) Monisade Afuye, has disclosed that Governor Biodun Oyebanji’s administration was making significant investment in functional education, skill development, job creation and farming, to promote human resources in the state.
Afuye said Oyebanji being a serious- minded leader, believed adequate attention must be accorded quality education, healthcare delivery, agriculture, skills and job creation, which accounted for why the government was focusing on these critical areas.
Mrs Afuye said these on Tuesday, while flagging off a stakeholders’ capacity building workshop for technical working group and Local Government Chairmen in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State Capital.
The Deputy Governor, in a statement by her Special Assistant on Media, Victor Ogunje, stated that the workshop will be a leeway for the domestication of Oyebanji’s human capital development roadmap at the State level in all the Councils.
She said the foregoing became imperative to substantially complement the human capital development strides at the state level and efforts being intensified by the federal government via National Human Capital Development Office.
“As a serious government, adequate attention must be given to human capital development , especially in the areas of healthcare, nutrition, quality education, agriculture, skills and jobs.
“The essence of the quality education is to equip our children with the foundation required to build successful lives. This government has been adopting multi -pronged actions that would allow schools from primary to tertiary to be responsive to demands of today’s realities.
“It is on this note that the office of the HCD in Ekiti State and National Human Capital Development office organised this workshop in other to domesticate what operates at the national and state levels at the local governments”.
Similarly, Mrs Afuye added the current government was upscaling efforts to shore up food sufficiency through cluster farming at Oke Ako, Iyemero and Gede, in Ekiti North Senatorial District.
Speaking at the event, the Head of Service, Dr. Folakemi Olomojobi, said Human capital development as a Pillar 3 of the Oyebanji’s administration must be zealously focused on at the grassroots, where over 70% of the population reside.
She advised the drivers of the local government system to perceive the training as an opportunity to broaden their horizons about the HCD concept and the priority placed by this administration on the sector.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Human Capital Development and Allied Matters, Hon. Gbenga Agbeyo, emphasized the imperative of the council bosses’ readiness to key into the Ekiti’s HCD Agenda, to fight poverty, joblessness and neglect in the system.