The Elemure of Emure Ekiti, His Royal Majesty Oba Adebowale Adebayo has called on Ekiti State government to support his community’s drive to establish the Emure Ekiti Polytechnic.
Leading a delegation of the Elemure-in-Council on a courtesy visit to the Governor Biodun Oyebanji, ahead of the upcoming Emure Ekiti Unity Day celebration, the monarch said: “Our visit is essentially to invite Your Excellency to Emure Unity Day 2023, which is a special edition, different from past celebrations in Emure Kingdom to encourage our vibrant youth in a group called Emure Ekiti Rebirth Agenda that initiated the noble project of establishingthe Emure Ekiti-owned polytechnic in the Kingdom.
Emure Unity Day 2023 holds on Saturday, 9th December.
While thanking the governor for appointing an Emure son, Hon. Ebenezer Boluwade into his cabinet, the Elemure also spoke of several critical needs requiring the intervention of the state government.
“We implore the government to put pressure on the National Boundary Commission towards resolving the lingering Emure Ekiti/Supare boundary dispute in which the state government intervened in April 2021″, Oba Adebayo said, stressing that, “about 12 kilometres of Ekiti land (Ekiti State) is currently encroached and occupied by Akoko people (Ondo State)”.
He sought the support of the state government in the provision of an ambulance for the General Hospital in the community, the rehabilitation of township roads, the reconstruction of inter-state roads in Emure Local Government Area, and the renovation of the main palace building.
Oba Adebayo urged the state government to act on the artic refrigerated warehouse sited in the town abandoned by the Federal Government in 2014. “The project was initiated to minimise post-harvest loss of agricultural produce, a 7.8-hectare parcel of land was acquired, surveyed and a certificate of occupancy issued by the State Government”, he explained, adding: “The contract was awarded, and the contractor was mobilized but failed to move to site, thus the project was abandoned”.
Oyebanji assured the Elemure that he had noted the requests of the Emure Ekiti community, and his administration would address them so that the impact of government could truly be felt at the grassroots level.
