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Dipo Famakinwa Colloquium holds in Ibadan on Friday
The first edition of the Dipo Famakinwa Colloquium holds on Friday in Ibadan with the theme, “Restructuring: ending the talk and starting the walk.
The organisers, DAWN Commission, Yoruba Academy and Afenifere Renewal Group, in a statement signed by Dr. Ade Adeagbo, said the biennial event serves to immortalise the memory, vision and ideals of Mr. Famakinwa, the pioneer Director-General of DAWN Commission who died in 2016.
The statement reads,
“It is important we immortalise him through his ideals targeted at developing our people and space because Dipo was successful in his private enterprise and he could have stayed privately to enjoy his labour. But he literally abandoned his business and threw himself into a cause to engender good governance in Nigeria.
“This is the lesson we are hoping people learn from Mr. Famakinwas lifetime. Nobody will develop our country for us if we don’t. We must be active participants in the development processes.”
Adeagbo said that the restructuring agenda should become a proper engaging and ongoing conversation that is owned by the masses, seeing that the political elites are only interested in making political gains out of it.
“This is what the colloquium aims to achieve,” he said.
The event holds at the House of Chiefs building, Oyo State Secretariat, Ibadan.
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