• NOV 21, 2023
• COUNCIL NEWS

2024 Budget : Agboyi-Ketu Engages Stakeholders for Inputs

As council chairman declares commencement of tech- driven revenue collection to block leakages

Agboyi-Ketu LCDA under the chairmanship of Mayor Dele Oshinowo has engaged with stakeholders to gather inputs for the 2024 fiscal year.

The engagement was organized by the Council's Department of Budget, Planning, Research and Statistics to deepen citizen participation in the budgeting process in order to ensure inclusive growth.

Speaking during the engagement, the chairman commended residents of the LCDA for their enormous contributions, urging them to bring forward their inputs for the LCDA to sieve through in order to provide an implementable working document.

Mayor Dele Oshinowo further noted that there will be no room for virement in the 2024 fiscal year.

Enthusing further to highlight the achievements of his administration so far in all sectors of governance, the Chairman assured that two roads in the Owode-Ajegunle Area of the Locality (Irawo Road and Ondo Street) will receive maximum attention in the next fiscal year.

He further noted that the LCDA will construct two new recreational centres in addition to the ongoing one in the ancient town of Agboyi.

"Today, I am delighted to see the huge presence of respectable stakeholders in our LCDA, indeed, in the last six years of our administration, our success stories of progressing our communities and transforming humanity have all been as a result of your overwhelming and unalloyed support" "However, we understand that there are still enormous challenges for us to surmount, in the next fiscal year, our administration will aggressively work towards putting smiles on the faces of the motoring community in the Owode-Ajegunle corridor and construction of world standard recreational centres across our LCDA"

"In addition, we are also planning to construct a new adminstrative office in our council headquarters in order to improve productivity and enhance quality service delivery of our workforce, further to this, we will embark on industrial drilling of boreholes that would be reticulated in many communities"

The chairman further explained that the LCDA will adoot a tech-driven approach to its revenue collection, stressing that the new system will ensure citizens pay from the comfort of their homes and business spaces, as well as generate their receipts on the go effortlessly.

At the behest of the Council Chairman, the team members promised to ensure seamless process for the tech-driven revenue collection, while also noting that the exercise will ensure that all properties in the LCDA are adequately captured in its database.

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