By Fisayo Akinduro, Osogbo

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As part of efforts to ensure access to quality and accessible social services, Osun State Government has trained and equipped planning, research and statistics officers in Ministries, Departments and Agencies in the state.
The 3-day workshop organized by the Ministry of Economic Planning and Budget in collaboration with the “Save The Children” initiative of the Federal Government is to ensure that every resident of the state especially the vulnerable have access to quality and accessible social services.
Declaring the three day workshop open in Osogbo, Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Prof. Olalekan Yinusa said the administration of Governor Gboyega Oyetola is determined to ensure that no resident of the state is denied access to social amenities.
He added that the present administration will never loose focus of its Development Agenda for the masses of the state who willingly gave him their votes during the last gubernatorial election in the state.
The Commissioner who was represented at the event by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Economic Planning and Budget, Aderemi Kolajo said the collation of data and its usage is very important for effective planning, hence the need for the workshop.
According to him, “This present administration wants to positively impact on the communities and every resident of this state, we want to know how impactful we have been to our rural communities and what to do for improvement.
“We want to ensure that we can gather and have accurate data, we want to know and capture data that we can use to positively affect the lives of our people, we want to know if we are moving in the right direction.
“Our Monitoring and Evaluation officers must have impactful effect on our people through the MDAs because data is useless if it can’t be used to solve problems in our society and our planning officers too will indirectly be useless. The aim of this workshop is to solve all that,”. he stated.