Oyo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has warned the State Government underneath the management of Engineer Seyi Makinde towards any try to convert Cheshire Home to a non-public property.
The get together made this declaration in an announcement signed by its Chairman, Professor Abdulrahman Akinoso.
The assertion was made accessible to DAILY POST on Friday.
DAILY POST learnt that Cheshire Home positioned alongside the Sango/ Eleyele Road in Ibadan North Local Government Area, is a non-revenue organisation arrange in 1959 to offer a supportive, household-like surroundings, care, medical remedy, schooling, and vocational coaching for persons with disabilities and rescued road youths.
Recall {that a} hearsay surfaced on Thursday that the state authorities had concluded plans to transform the house into a non-public property.
Special Adviser on Media to the governor, Dr Sulaimon Olanrewaju, in his defence, famous that each one the actions taken by the State Government followed due process.
But, Akinoso, in his response, described the transfer by the federal government to transform the house to a non-public property as a tragic improvement.
He defined that such a transfer will add to the problems and hardship facing persons with disabilities and different susceptible teams within the state.
He used the chance to advise the state governor to rescind his resolution.
The assertion stated, “Oyo State authorities’s admission of changing Cheshire Home land at Eleyele to a non-public property is a disgrace. The Peoples Democratic Party Oyo State, learn the assertion signed by Dr Sulaimon Olanrewaju, Special Adviser on Media to Governor Makinde, admitting conversion of Cheshire Home land to a non-public property with disdain.
“The declare of utilizing “due course of” is an oppressive technique to subdue the curiosity of much less privileged residents by which Cheshire Home belongs. It is gloomy and disheartening that the Oyo State authorities can descend low to make use of devices of workplace to hijack properties of a non-revenue organisation arrange since 1959 to offer a supportive, household-like surroundings, care, medical remedy, schooling, and vocational coaching for disabled kids and adults, together with rescued road youth.
“What is predicted of a superb and caring authorities that we presently lack in Oyo State is to guard the pursuits of the residents, particularly individuals with disabilities, not changing their properties to personal use, which the Oyo State authorities of the day is thought for. The Peoples Democratic Party kicks towards this impunity and assures Cheshire Home administration and different victims of state land grabbers that the choice shall be reversed. To obtain this, Oyo residents should use their votes to reject the continuation of the official land grabbers in any disguise”.
