By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan.
Oyo State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr Toye Arulogun has said Governor Abiola Ajimobi is not planing to make life difficult for the people of the state.
Mr Arulogun who stated this while receiving in his office members of the League of Veteran Journalists (LVJ), Oyo State Chapter, declared that the present administration in the state was committed to finding ways of ameliorating the sufferings of the people.
The Commissioner stressed that the measures been put in place by the state government was not to create hardship for the citizens but rather to meet up with its responsibilities of delivering the dividends of democracy to the citizens.
“Government has been restructuring our Board of Internal Revenue with the help of experts in that field. Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s administration has no intention to make life difficult for the citizens but rather to ameliorate their sufferings,” he said.
Mr Arulogun pointed out that the Governor Ajimobi led administration “needs to strengthen its revenue base so as to meet up with its responsibilities to the people, while laws that are not aiding our IGR drive are also being redressed”.
“We feel the pain of our people, we know they are expecting us to deliver on our electoral promises. We know what they are going through because of the economic recession of the country. We cannot add to their pains with our own plans and that is why we are embarking on renewed IGR drive to block the loopholes affecting our internal income”.
He noted that the Senator Abiola Ajimobi led Government holds information dissemination germane and is willing to pool resources together with the members of the League who he described as “accomplished professionals in their various fields of endeavor”.
Emphasizing that the state government was ready to tap into the expertise of the league’s members to stem the misrepresentations and misguided information which was an ill of the present society, he said the government, through the Ministry, would improve on its relationship with the LVJ to engage its members.
Oyo State Chairman of LVJ, Alhaji Wale Adele assured the Senator Abiola Ajimobi led government of the league’s support saying, having Mr. Arulogun as Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism was a round peg in a round hole.
