The Senior Special Assistant to Governor Seyi Makinde on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Hon Kunle Yusuff MON, says the success of SDGs hinges on the collaboration between Government and Civil Society Organisation. Hon Yusuff stated this on Tuesday while receiving the delegation of national and state bodies of the Civil Society Organisation who paid him a courtesy visit.
According to him,
“It has often been said that the development of a nation hinges not only on the government but also on individuals and organizations. The deficiency of governments makes room for CSOs but the latter should not be seen as competing with the former because the purpose of the CSOs is not to replace governments.”
” Rather its purpose is to support the efforts of government so as to improve lives and give the lives of people a meaning by upholding justice, human rights, and defending the rule of law. Governments alone cannot be solely saddled with the development of a nation because of the scarce resources at their disposal.”
” Hence, all hands must be on deck to salvage the situation. Without mincing words, governments at all levels know that it is their primary responsibility to provide good governance through provision of necessary socio-economic services that would impact on the general wellbeing of the governed while the non-state actors (Civil Society Actors) are to complement the efforts of the governments.”
On his part, the national coordinator of Civil Society Coalition on Sustainable Development, Tola Winjobi said the purpose of the visit was to discuss some important issues with the view to bringing more developments to Oyo State and to essentially show case the activities of the government.
In his remark, the Oyo State coordinator of CSO’s, Hamzat Kolawole, noted that today’s meeting would help to fashion out how the group can partner state government to bring dividends of SDGs to the people of Oyo State.
The group was accompanied by Mrs Christiana Onidiji.
