COMMUNIQUE

COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE FIRST OSUN STATE YOUTH TOWN HALL MEETING FOR THE YOUTHS OF OSUN STATE, HELD AT THE WOCDIF CENTRE, OSOGBO, OSUN STATE, FROM DECEMBER 16TH – 17TH, 2009

The First Osun State Youth Town Hall Meeting was held in Osun State from December 16th – 17th, 2009, with the theme: “Towards a Better Future: The Roles of Nigerian Youths.”
2. The Day One featured the Opening Session which was declared by His Excellency, The Executive Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, represented by the Honourable Commissioner for Special Duties, Alhaji Taiwo Sunmonu. Thereafter, Lecture Presentation Session was followed.
3. Day Two was exclusively for an Interactive Session between the Honourable Members of the Nigerian Youth Parliament and the Youth delegates from Osun State. The delegation was based on the registered Voluntary Youth Organisations and twenty (20) participants from each Local Government Areas of Osun State.
4. The Interactive Session was centred around five (5) Thematic Issues with particular attention to their relationships with Youth Development in Osun State. These are: Self Appraisal; Unemployment; Education; Health and; Youth Involvement in Policy Formulation.
5. Consequent upon the (4) above, the Meeting deliberated and unanimously came up with the following Resolutions: That:
The Osun State Government should see to the creation of a full – fledged MINISTRY OF YOUTH DEVELOPMENT in Osun State.
The Osun State Government should provide vocational training centres.
The Osun State Government should encourage foreign and local investors.
The Osun State Government should re –open the technical schools and re – habilitate the existing ones.
The youth should embark on self – employment and develop their entrepreneurial skills.
The Osun State Government should provide more basic infrastructures at all levels of education.
The Osun State Government should provide adequate supervisors for schools and make available training and re – training of teachers.
There should be drastic reduction in the school fees of the students at the Osun State University.
The Osun State Government should re – structure educational curriculum to reflect the practical side of the curriculum.

Moral instructions should be revisited in schools through civic education.
The Osun State Government should encourage voluntary youth organisations in schools and provide them with necessary materials to curb moral decadence.
Government should provide youth – friendly centres in each Local Government Areas of Osun State.
Youth should come out en – mass in order to perform civic duties & rights and shun violence during elections.
The Osun State Government should re – introduce Environmental Sanitation and allow voluntary youth organisations to supervise in the State.
Youths should be involved in policy – making at all levels of Government.
The Government should equip the existing health centres and build more.
The civil servants should be well remunerated.
The Osun State Government should encourage and sponsor Youth Town Hall Meetings so as to give the youths of Osun State the opportunity to contribute their quotas towards moving the State forward.
The Government should encourage youths in Agricultural Programmes.
6. Acknowledgement: The conference acknowledged the sponsorship received from the Government of Osun State. Likewise, appreciated the technical and logistic supports extended by the collaborator of this historic event, the Osun State Directorate of the National Orientation Agency. It also expressed gratitude to all the individuals and corporate bodies who believed in the visions of the organisers of this project, the Osun State Representatives at the Nigerian Youth Parliament (Hon. Isiaka Olamilekan Popoola – Osun Central, Hon. Jimoh Abiola – Osun West and Hon. Tinuola Awosemo – Osun East). Appreciations in deed are to the Honourable Members of the Nigerian Youth Parliament who travelled from far distances to grace the occasion; the National Youth Council of Nigeria (Osun State Chapter) for their “young shall grow” leadership style; the Central Planning Committee Members for their dedications towards making the project a reality and a host of others.





SIGNED:

Hon. Isiaka Olamilekan Popoola                                                         Mr. Wale Falajiki 
on behalf of the Osun State Representatives                                         on behalf of the CPC Members