Governor Seyi Makinde, Monday, disclosed that the state government is planning to conduct COVID-19 test on at least 10,000 people across the state.
The governor stated this while speaking on phone during a Fresh FM 105.9 Ibadan programme, “COVID -19 situation report room.”
He stressed that this was part of the measures put in place by his administration at ensuring that COVID -19 is completely wiped away from Oyo state and its people.
Governor Makinde stressed that his administration is determined at taking all the necessary measures towards curtailing spread of Coronavirus in the state if there should be the need to do so.
The governor maintained that Oyo state government is presently working on necessary palliative measures for the people of the state towards allieviating their suffering arising from the COVID -19 pandemic, adding that the major challenges facing the Oyo state government was how to ensure that the planned parliatives get to the right people in the state.
“We have started collating data of people in the state, so that the right person get the parliatives from the government. From my findings, I learnt that the Federal Governmemt wanted to give N20,000 to people across ten local governmemt in the state, but I later discovered that 80% of the Federal Government N20,000 conditional cash transfer is wasteful, so we are working to bridge the gap.”
According to the governor , there will be no going back in the efforts of the Oyo state government towards ensuring that the state is CoronaVirus free in the shortest possible time.
Speaking on his health status, the governot said he is now feeling okay, and “now ready to resume back to the work Oyo people voted him for.
“I wouldn’t have known my health status if not because of the test I took, I firstly took the covid 19 test on Thursday and the sample was taking to a laboratory in Ede, Osun State and the result came back negative. The second sample was also taking on Sunday at the virology laboratory of the University of Ibadan and it also come back negative.”
While expressing his administration’s readiness to accommodate constructive criticism, the governor advised those that are criticising for mischief making to have avrethink and use their freetime for positive gesture capable of improving the socirty.
The governor urged the people of the state to continue to support his government in the on going fight against spread of CoronaVirus as the state government can not do it alone.
