* Restates commitment to effective promotion of govt policies
By Nudoiba Ojen
OGUN STATE Ministry of Information and Strategy has said it will continue to deploy all communication strategies to serve all organs of government in the promotion of government policies and programmes.
This, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communications, Mr Kayode Akinmade, said, would be done through a two-way communication channels between the people and the government.
Akinmade spoke in Abeokuta on Friday while defending the Ministry’s budget proposal for next year before the members of the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation led by Hon. Musefiu Lamidi.
Akinmade reassured the Assembly that the Ministry was courteous of the principles of separation of powers, and would continue to render the necessary assistance to all arms of government in publicising their activities.
He noted that the next fiscal year would see to the utilisation of more strategies to mobilize the people for positive development, stressing that more reawakening of the people towards embracing the state’s core values alongside branding to leverage on the successes achieved by Prince Dapo Abiodun-led administration’s development projects would also be explored.
To this end, the Ministry proposed a total budget expenditure of N2.023bn for the next fiscal year, out of which N328m would go for capital, N1.23bn for overhead and the remaining N461million would take care of personnel.
Responding, the House Committee members sought more collaborative efforts from the Ministry in mobilising the people towards government laudable policies and programmes.
Other agencies that had their budget proposals defended before the State lawmakers were the State Television (OGTV) and its State Broadcasting Corporation counterpart (OGBC), as well as the State Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
