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COVID-19: Oyo LG Information officers Partner Govt on Grassroots Sensitization |OGBOMOSO INFO|



Members of the Association of Local Government Information Officers (ALGIO) chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Oyo State chapter, on Saturday, kick-started a sensitization campaign to the grassroots on how to prevent the novel Coronavirus pandemic.

The campaign under the aegis of the Coalition for Grassroots Volunteers Against COVID-19 (COGVAC-19), held in partnership with the Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force, under the leadership of Governor Seyi Makinde, was kicked off in Ijawaya Village, Atiba Local Government Area of Oyo by the State’s Commissioner for Information, Dr. Wasiu Olatubosun, who represented the governor.

A statement signed by the Special Assistant (Print Media) to the governor, Moses Alao, indicated that the sensitization campaign took place at the village square, with villagers, ALGIO members and state officials observing the mandatory social distance, while there was also a house-to-house sensitization where villagers were given nose masks, washing soaps and hand sanitisers.

Explaining the rationale for setting up the campaign, the chairman of ALGIO chapel, Oyo State, Alhaji Kunle Kareem, said local government information officers in the State wanted to contribute to the State’s efforts to prevent COVID-19, noting that the body chose to take the campaign to the grassroots because there is always a dearth of information at the rural communities.

This was as the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, who was represented by the Samu of Oyo Kingdom, Chief Lamidi Oyewale, commended Governor Makinde for being up and doing on how to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 in the State.

The foremost royal father stated this when he received the Commissioner, the chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Oyo State, who also doubles as the chairman of the COGVAC-19 advisory committee, Comrade Bayo Titilola-Sodo and other ALGIO officials and members at the palace.
At the sensitization campaign, which also had in attendance the caretaker chairmen of Atiba and Afijio Local Governments, Alhaji Ibrahim Akinkunmi and Mr. Gbenga Okeleye, the Commissioner for Information, Dr. Olatubosun, said the State decided to join force with ALGIO because its vision to take the message of COVID-19 prevention to the grassroots was in alignment with the efforts of the State’s COVID-19 Task Force under the leadership of Governor Makinde
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