The provost of the Emmanuel Alayande College of Education (EACOED), Oyo, Dr. Rasaq Adefabi, has commended the Governor of Oyo State, Engineer, Seyi Makinde, for his unrelenting commitment to prevent, curtail and control the COVID-19 pandemic in all the nooks and crannies of the State.
The provost, who gave the commendation on Sunday, while donating customized food items including Garri, Yam flour, and alcohol-based Handsaniters worth two million Naira (#2,000,000.00) to the State Government through the Ministry of Agriculture, said the kindheartedness of Governor Seyi Makinde, towards ensuring the welfare of the staffers of tertiary institution in the State motivated the institution to donate the school-based relief items.
In his words: “The cost of the food materials presented to Oyo State today is over two million Naira. We were moved to do this because of the kindheartedness of His Excellency, Engineer Seyi Makinde, especially towards ensuring that the welfare of staff of tertiary institution, particularly Emmanuel Alayande, which has always been giving him concern, is well catered for. So, we believe it was about time we reciprocated the generosity.
“Second, we saw him being seriously bothered about the COVID-19 pandemic, which is spreading all over, and his concern that Oyo State should not be seriously affected. We thought we should join hands with him by presenting our own window’s mite, especially towards ensuring that the people of Oyo State do not pass through undue pain borne out of the lockdown they have found themselves.”
While noting further that the food items donated were produced in a very clean and hygienic environment, the Provost explained that “We have a little factory in our campus producing bread, producing water, and we also have a committee in charge of producing agric products including garri and yam flour. So, we want to guarantee the people of Oyo State that their hygiene is well guaranteed. ”
“We brought five hundred and five copies of garri. They are well packed and customized in the name of the college, and in the name of the Provost as the team leader. Added with that is customized five hundred and twenty-four pack of yam flour, and seventy-three copies of hand sanitizers produced by our department of Chemistry in Emmanuel Alayande College of Education”, he added.
Oyo State Commissioner for Agric, Hon. Muyiwa Ojekunle, while receiving the donations on behalf of the state government, described the gesture by the Institution as commendable, saying that the food items donated would be of immense benefit to many citizens in the state.
Hon. Ojekunle, however, assured the Institution that all the donations received from different quarters would bring succor to the people of the state and will get to the grassroots by the time the distribution commences.
He, therefore, admonished other institutions to emulate good gesture of this institution by assisting the people at this trying period.
