Garnishing Our Civil Service Garment: The Hub Strategy (ONDO 2025 – 2029)
My fellow men and women of Ondo State, aren’t you tired of being labelled a civil service-only State? Bureaucracy does not necessarily brew creativity – a desired element for economic expansion. Should we tell ourselves the bitter truth; despite being an oil-producing State with an extra income from 13% oil derivation fund to her monthly allocations from the Federation’s coffers, do you know that Ondo State is not ‘considered’ a ‘major’ player in Nigeria’s economy? If you excuse the common discourse of increment in salary & pension packages of civil servants, perpetual scout for political offices by politicians, and construction of some rural & urban roads as governance dividends, how many local & foreign business conglomerates or die-hard investment optimists think of Ondo State in Nigeria’s post-colonial years, when considering geolocation for investments? Such deep-seated conversations of economic development are uncommon around us. That we are called the “Sunshine S