Ogun government assures infrastructure devt., prudent funding

Ogun State government has restated its commitment to the infrastructural development across the three Senatorial Districts, just as it promises prudent funding in the execution of projects.

Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Mr. Olaolu Olabimtan, who stated this at the year 2024 Budget Breakdown Media parley at the Olusegun Osoba Press Centre in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, informed that the yearly budget performance of the state recorded tremendous improvement due to the visionary, exemplary leadership and support of Governor Dapo Abiodun

Mr. Olabimtan said the state economic team was strategic about the management of debts for survival and development purposes, adding that the present administration would continue to strive towards achieving the sectoral global benchmarks.

Earlier, the Chief Economic Adviser and Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Dapo Okubadejo, while giving an overview of the state’s fiscal policy, noted that the present administration had been deliberate in dealing with serious economic challenges, such as high inflation, insecurity, dearth of infrastructure, among others.

Okubadejo pointed out that the administration was leveraging on the state’s Comparative Advantage, adding that the present administration was aware of reducing bottlenecks associated with the cost of production through the creation of efficient Logistics, creation of Knowledge and Innovation Hubs while optimizing the advantage of being the state with the highest public and private institutions.

“Our target as a government is to be the most economically viable state. We are set to open up our Economic Development Clusters with significant economic activities; we need to have a master plan, be careful with debt, and continue to be very strategic in our collective effort to develop the state to an enviable height among its peers”, he said.