The creation of more Local Council Development Areas LCDAs by the Ondo State Government through , Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, SAN, CON has nothing to do with the purported map “ceding” Arogbo-Ijaw and Ijaw-Apoi towns Ilaje/Ese-Odo or Irele Local Governments respectively.
However, in a statement made available to journalists on Saturday and signed by the Commissioner For Information and Orientation, Mrs Bamidele Ademola -Olateju,said that the never and has not ceded any town whatsoever to another community in the state for whatever reason or purpose.
According to the statement, “the state government wishes to state categorically, that no land has been ceded to any community, to which the land did not belong in the state” it reads
The map in question was part of instructional materials and textbooks produced in 2022 and distributed recently to public schools.
In the map of ondo State distributed, there were juxtapositions in names and some were put where they should not be. This is an unintended error.
When the error was discovered, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology moved swiftly to withdraw the materials.
This act of inadvertence has no link with the current process on the creation of new LCDAs in the State and should be disregarded completely.
Signed: Bamidele Ademola-Olateju Ondo State
Commissioner for Information and Orientation
