Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has assured that his administration would imotalise the late Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Rt. Honourable Kehinde Ayoola.
Makinde stated this today during a special cabinet valedictory session held in honour of the late commissioner, who died last week.
The Governor, who declared that he would take responsibility for the education of the children of the deceased, described the late commissioner as a gem, adding that he has lost a loyal and dedicated friend and colleague.
He stressed that he would be ready to bear the cost of the education of the children of the deceased no matter where they want to go in search of knowledge.
He said, “Nothing prepares us for something like this. One week, you are with a friend, colleague, discussing the affairs, dreams, aspirations and, the next moment, he is no more. All the dreams and aspirations are extinguished. He will definitely be missed by all of us who have worked with him. I have seen pictures that the deceased and some of our colleagues took together. We will all miss him but I will be missing him even more dearly. I first met him in 2002. We were very young then and we were thinking about the ideal situation for our state”.
“I remember the first meeting at Fortune Chinese Restaurant at Onireke. He was the only politician amongst us. We were just professionals thinking about how Oyo State can progress and we all decided to support the then Governor Rashidi Ladoja. But because we all knew nothing about politics, every time we got to a point to review the political implications of the decisions we were about to take, we always fell back on him because he will be the one to always tell us the ramification of the decision we’d planned to take”.
