Wale Jagun
-Holds 2026 stakeholders’ consultative forum
Authorities of the Ijede Local Council Development Area (LCDA) has put the council’s budget performance for 2025 at 100% with a few weeks left for the year to be concluded. This, it said was due to proper budget planning.
To attain the performance in the coming budget year, the council has embarked on a 2 – day Budget Stakeholders’ Consultative Forum in preparation for the 2026 budget in four strategic locations.
In a statement by the Public Affairs Unit of the Ijede LCDA, the Y2026 Stakeholders’ Consultative Forum, which brought together community leaders, residents, and representatives from various sectors held in the four political wards of Ijede LCDA – Egbin Town Hall (Ward A), Reading Room on Palace Road (Ward B), Ijede Town Hall (Ward C), and Oke-Eletu Town Hall (Ward D), to deliberate on development priorities for the coming year
Speaking during the opening of the session at the Ijede Town Hall (Ward C) on Monday, the Council Chairman, Hon. Motunrayo Gbadebo-Alogba, announced that the Y2025 budget achieved 100% performance, and she emphasised that “He who fails to plan, plans to fail.”
She highlighted her administration’s continued commitment to quality basic education, functional healthcare delivery, infrastructure development, youth empowerment and skill acquisition, and tourism promotion as central pillars of local development.
Hon. Gbadebo-Alogba also outlined several completed and ongoing projects under the Y2025 budget, including: completion and commissioning of Igbe Ogunro Model Primary School, repair and reconstruction of perimetre fencing at Luwasa Secondary School, renovation and provision of modern furniture at the Ijede Library, annual distribution of JAMB/UTME forms, school books, and uniforms to pupils, and training, graduation, and empowerment of youths with start-up kits.
Also, groundbreaking for additional classrooms and toilet facilities in four public primary schools, fencing of Methodist Primary School, Oke-Eletu, renovation of Anwar-Ul-Islam Primary School, construction of the soon-to-be-commissioned Legislative Building and hosting of the first-ever Ijede World Tourism Day celebration.
In her reactions to stakeholders’ calling for action on pressing community needs like grading of inner road networks and flood mitigation strategies, the Council Chairman in addressing both immediate and long-term concerns, assured them of her administration’s responsiveness to public input.
She reiterated that collective responsibility remains essential for sustained local growth and encouraged all participants to remain actively engaged as the Y2026 budget formulation progresses.
