Osun Govt. Lauds Monarchs for Axing Market Associations

By Funmi Ojo

Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has thrown his weight behind the traditional approach to food price control introduced by some traditional rulers in Osun State.

The governor described it as a local innovation to lower increasing food inflation across the state.

In a statement issued by the Governor’s Spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, Governor Adeleke expressed happiness that traditional rulers in Osun State have acted to regulate food prices and curtail negative activities of middlemen in the marketplaces.

Governor Adeleke, who condemned artificial inflation induced by market middlemen, lauded the traditional rulers under the chairmanship of His Royal Majesty, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi for abolishing strange market associations which induced high food prices.

According to the Governor, the actions of most members of the Osun State Council of Traditional Rulers on price control has assisted the government in its quest to address food insecurity in Osun State.

He commended the traditional rulers for impressing on market leaders the need to avoid unnecessary price increases, calling on all other traditional rulers in Osun State to emulate the actions of royal fathers at Ile Ife, Ede, Igbajo, Iwo and others.

Governor Adeleke therefore, directed the Special Adviser on Markets, Mrs. Eniola Omotoso to move quickly to support the royal fathers in this new drive to institute traditional price control as well as integrate the Iyalojas and Babalojas into the implementation process.

Meanwhile, Governor Adeleke has directed the Food Security Implementation Committee to move faster to ensure the realisation of a secured and accessible food supply value chain in Osun State.

He tasked the committee to quickly come up with actionable plans, deliverables and timeliness, noting that food security is a matter demanding urgent attention.

“We must implement a holistic agenda which addresses all segments of agricultural value chains. That is what we have in our Food Security Committee report and the actualisation is what I demand from the implementation committee”, the Governor declared.

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