We’ll
continue partnering private sector for job creation - Ajimobi
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has said that his administration
would continue to partner with the private sector in order to create an avenue
for job creation for the unemployed youths in the state.
He made the disclosure on Wednesday while formally inaugurating the facility
of Spanco Group at the Old Kingsway Building, Dugbe, Ibadan.
The governor further disclosed that government would soon institute an
e-governance system and outsource some services in order to create a sypport
system that would improve information-sharing across various areas for the
citizens of the state.
Also, through a partnership between government and the Spanco Group, he
said that his administration would roll-out a Government to Citizen (G2C) Help
Line which would establish an information link between government and citizens.
This, Governor Ajimobi said would cover various initiatives by the state
like Health Helpline and Medical Care, Health Emergency and Hospital/Ambulance
Management, Agriculture Helpline, Land Registry, Women in Distress and Police
Helpline aside any other new initiatives and programmes that would be
introducing in the future.
``All over the world, the trend now is for organizations to fan-out the
execution of key aspects of their responsibilities to professionals and
experienced solution-providers.
``This is the reason for our government’s synergy with Spanco Group, an
organization which possesses business spread across System Integration, Power,
Technology Infrastructure, e-Governance and Business Process Outsourcing as
well as state-of-the-art infrastructure, including skilled work force,’’ he
said.
The governor said that the state possessed a fertile ground for any
investor wishing to take optimal advantage of its God-endowed possibilities.
``With the wealth of multi-linguistic residents of our state, skilled,
talented but unemployed youth, we became the best choice for Spanco Group to
establish a large BPO Infrastructure that will help execute 24x7 outsourced
processes,’’ he said.
He said by creating a functional state-of-the-art infrastructure in the
state capital, with over 1,000 skilled resources, the largest BPO operational centre
in Nigeria, a substantial number of unemployed graduates in the state had been rescued
from the unemployment market.
``With its 1,600 square meter facility here in Ibadan, with our support,
Spanco hopes to generate 5,000 jobs within Oyo State in the next few years,’’
the governor stated.
He said that his administration would continue to seek and work with private
investors, wherever they might be in all the four corners of the world, for the
betterment of the state, adding ``we will leave no stone unturned in providing
a favourable and conducive atmosphere for investments and investors to thrive.
Governor
Ajimobi recalled that on assumption of office, he assured the people of the state that his
administration would do everything within its human possibility to effect
changes in the quality of governance it met on ground and significantly alter
the unfortunate perception of the state by the rest of the world.``By the time we came on board, the impression out there was that an average Oyo State indigene was in one way or the other affiliated with the bloodshed and brigandage that characterised the state.
``We reckoned from the outset that an atmosphere of
violence could only frighten investors away from Oyo State and would not augur
well for the all-inclusive economic base we envisaged.
``Since no man is an island and government’s funds
are not illimitable, we strove with all within our capacity. One of the cogent
and major things we did was to distance ourselves from the consuming politics
of violence and brigandage.
``We have also endeavored to play a civilized
politics that has no room for character assassination, rumour peddling and
pedestrian politics. We have, on the reverse, focused on the politics of
development.
The governor also said that the peace being enjoyed
in the state today was borne primarily out of his government’s desire to be
non-aligned and unbiased in the treatment of individuals and groups.
``Ours is not an administration that thrives in the
spillage of blood of its citizens. We frown at the politics of bloodshed and
brigandage, in all its entirety. We will never encourage it,’’ he stated.
Also speaking, the Chief Executive Officer of
Spanco Group, Mr. Pravin Kumar thanked the governor for creating an enabling
environment which had encouraged his group to establish the facility in Ibadan.
The Chief Executive Officer of Airtel, Mr. Segun
Ogunsanya also promised that his organization would continue to partner with
government in creating wealth and in lifting the economy of the state.
