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By Raymond Osho
ABEOKUTA – Ogun State House of Assembly on Monday, October 12, 2020 charged the Commissioner nominee for information, Alhaji Waheed Odusile to put in place innovation to revamp and strengthen the operations of Ogun State Broadcasting Corporation (OGBC), through technological advancement.
The lawmakers made the charge while screening Odusule and the Vice Chancellor of Tai Solarin University of Education, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu who are the Commissioners nominees for Information, and Education, Science & Technology.
They also charged Odusile, who is the former President, Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), to, upon his confirmation and swearing-in, formulate policies towards propagating government’s infrastructural developments in the rural communities through the traditional media, while projecting the people’s needs to the government.
The Speaker, Rt. Hon. Olakunle Oluomo, at the screening session challenged the duo to justify the confidence reposed in them by deploying their relevant skills and wealth of experience in their respective fields in turning around the fortunes of their sectors for better.
According to the Speaker, the nominees if confirmed and sworn-in by the governor should put in place within the limit of time, strategies towards adding values to the developmental efforts of the present administration in their spheres.
In his response, Odusile pledged to further propagate all the laudable developmental programmes and projects of the state government to the people.
He assured that the experience he had in journalism over the years would be put to use in managing the information and communication sector, especially having served at the apex of his profession in the nation and Africa.
The former NUJ President underscored the need to allow for presentation of fact as against propaganda to aid good governance, saying that the people deserved the right information on government policies and programmes.
