The leadership of the Esa Oke Central Union and the Esa Oke Renewal Initiative have dispelled the rumours making the rounds that the stakeholders’ meeting scheduled for Saturday April 4 had been cancel.
The meeting, according to information from the groups and Council of Elders (ECE) will hold as scheduled,
The groups are organizing the meeting in conjunction with the paramount ruler of Esa Oke Kingdom, HRM Oba Adeyemi Akanbi Adediran, Atipa Owaji 11, and the Owamiran-in-Council.
The meeting is an avenue to fully think out of the box by looking inwards and deliberate on how to tackle all the various internal challenges facing the community.
To this end, Oba Owamiran has started mobilizing the indigenes, both locally based and from diaspora, to attend a Stakeholders meeting. The meeting has been fixed for Saturday, April 4.
The meeting which will have all the Chiefs and important personalities within the community in attendance is slated to hold at the Civil and Cultural centre. They are to strategize on the way forward for the ancient community.
The Chairman of the ECU, Otunba Yinusa Aremu Bamigboye, who co-signed the invite with the Secretary, Prof. Jimi Dada, is optimistic that the meeting “should produce practical and actionable plans, resolutions, and immediate Convocation of an implementation committee”.
According to the Community leader, the paramount ruler of Esa Oke Kingdom, HRM Oba Adeyemi Akanbi Adediran, Atipa Owaji 11, and the Owamiran-in-Council would be pleased to have all the elites various stakeholders and other opinion leaders, at the Stakeholders’ meeting.
Otunba Bamigboye however listed key Issues for deliberation at the Stakeholders meeting as security, electricity supply crisis, poor health infrastructure and related services in the town, declining Student enrolment at the State-owned College of Technology (OSCOTECH), unusual high cost of food items, transportation and other essential services within the community.