The winners of the essay competition for a 30-year economic plan for Ondo State have received their cash awards.
The Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Pastor Emmanuel Igbasan, while presenting the cash prizes to the winner on Sunday in Akure,said the programme was a long term economic plan for the state.
Three winners emerged out of the total of the 93 participants emerged.
According to Igbasan, the long term economic plan is backed by the state legal instrument for the development of the state beyond the present administration.
He said the crafting of the project(the Ondo 2055 Economic Plan) was a product of Fiscal Responsibility Law 2017 of Ondo State.
The commissioner said after the consultants engaged had read through the materials, they pruned the 93 proposals to 22 out of which they submitted the best three to the commissioner.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a graduate of English from Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, 28-year old John Adeoti emerged as the best writer.
Also, Michael Omosehin and Segun Oladapo’s proposals were rated second and third best respectively.
Winners were presented cheques of N500,000, N300,000 and N200,000 respectively for framing vision statements for the state Development Plan tagged: ‘Ondo 2055′.
Igbasan explained that the state government provided the opportunity for the people of the state to make their input in the designing of the 30-year long term economic plan for the state.
“It’s a long term development plan of the state government. We have started the administrative plan long ago.
“We put into consideration the human capital present in our state and decided to craft a great future we all desire.
“This plan would be subject to reviewing to see where we are every 5 years. We look at the schools, infrastructure facilities, health facilities and the population growth and economic growth for further improvement.
“A lot of money is committed and in a couple of weeks, the project would be completed and forwarded to the governor for onward presentation to the people of Ondo State,” he said.
The best participant, John Adeoti expressed shock at his emergence as the best writer and disclosed that he used Lagos as the benchmark in preparing his proposal for Ondo State in 30 years time.
Adeoti, therefore, implored people at the helm of affairs of the state, particularly politicians, not to allow the long tern proposal be another document that would end up in trash can
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