Local government administrators have been urged to be accountable to the people at the grassroots to make the leadership style operating at the state level cascade to the local government.
Oyo State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, Olufunmilayo Orisadeyi said this on Tuesday while hosting members of Conference of Local Government Administrators at his office in Ibadan.
Orisadeyi said for the people at the grassroots to key into the policies and programmes of the Seyi Makinde administration and give their maximum support; they should be carried along on what the local government administration has in stock for them.
She called for periodic stakeholders’ meetings between the local government and their respective communities so as to engender open government system which she said the incumbent governor held sacrosanct.
“While appreciating this visit, I want to call your attention to the need to carry along the people at the local government or the grassroots on the programmes and policies of the present administration. The government in the state will always rely on your capacity to represent its interest in extending good governance to our people.
“No individual will fail to support government when the government is always carrying the individual along as regards its plans to develop the people and physical infrastructures,” Orisadeyi said.
Speaking on her capacity to perform as a woman commissioner, Orisadeyi said she would like to rest the insinuation that she might not perform well at the ministry as a woman, assuring the people to expect excellence in her performance.
She asserted that she would bring to fore, her experience in administration and as a lawmaker at the Oyo State House Assembly in administering the ministry, adding that she believed she was a round peg in a round hole, having served as the chairman, House Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy during her stint at the state House of Assembly.
Oyadeyi was the first woman to hold the office of the Commissioner of Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters.
The former Oyo Lawmaker appealed to the Local Government Administrators to cooperate with her and be diligent in the discharge of their duties for a better Oyo State.
