'As Open Salawu, as Babalaje of Ogbomoso l support Kabiyesi Soun's vision with ₦100m'

‘As Open Salawu, as Babalaje of Ogbomoso l support Kabiyesi Soun’s vision with ₦100m’

Femi OGUNLANA

Engr Muftau Open Salawu the Babalaje of Ogbomosoland created a buzz Tuesday at the maiden Ogbomoso Education Summit held at The Great Hall, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology LAUTECH when he announced a donation of one hundred million naira (₦100m) to support the vision of the Soun, His Imperial Majesty Oba Ghandi Afolabi Olaoye Orumogege III, towards the development of Ogbomosoland.

Engr Salawu who represented the Acting Governor of Oyo state Barrister Bayo Lawal at the massively attended event submitted his gesture was borne out of a “dream” he had.

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Informing the audience the Acting Governor was unavoidably absent relayed his principal’s message that an enabling environment would be provided for the actualization of the outcome of the resolutions reached.

Open Salawu the Director General, Oyo State Project Performance Monitoring Agency stated, “The Acting Governor asked me to inform Kabiyesi that whatever the communique reached, the government will provide an enabling environment to actualize it.”

Now speaking for himself he declared, “As Open Salawu, as Babalaje of Ogbomosoland, you know we are public servants, we are not supposed to do this, but let me do this and damn the consequence.

“Kabiyesi l dreamed, my dream is l set aside ₦100m for all the programmes that you have in mind, and that ₦100m is in a pool in which l will pull from it to be supporting all these programmes.

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The CEO/MD of Opinior Engr Ltd further affirmed, “Education is everything and l have decided that l will do everything humanly possible to support any education programme.”

The highly successful programme ogbomosoinsightonline.com reports also saw the proprietor of Adeleke University Ede Osun state donating ₦100m to the Ogbomoso Education Trust Fund. This is as other stakeholders made personal donations and others on behalf of institutions they represent.

The programme had as theme, “Community partnership in education in Ogbomosoland.”