Gov. Abiodun
Ogun State Government has reiterated its commitment to continually accord priority to Public-Private Partnerships in a bid to address the infrastructural gap existing in the state.
To this end, the Prince Dapo Abiodun led adminstration has partnered with the International Senior Lawyers’ Project and U.K. law firm Alston & Bird LLP, supported by A4AID, Role U.K. and U.K Aid to strengthen the capacity of personnel drawn from the PPP Office and Commercial Lawyers from the Ministry of Justice.
The training focuses on infrastructure development, legal drafting and private sector financing to enhance the delivery of ambitious and income generating projects for the State’s economic prosperity.
Speaking at the training, the Director-General Ogun State Office of Public Private Partnerships, Mr. Dapo Oduwole who expressed satisfaction with the quality and content of training, adding that human capital development ensures current and future delivery of enabling infrastructure projects through first class in-house legal and project management skills.
Oduwole added “The Office of Public Private Partnerships with support from the Ministries of Justice, Finance and all MDA’s continue to spearhead this administration’s PPP projects across the senatorial districts in the state with requisite expertise and partnership working with the private sector.
He said the development will boost investor confidence and makes Ogun State a destination of choice for local national and international private investors, he noted.
In his remark, the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ogungbade said the Office of Public-Private Partnership was created by the present administration to effectively cater for investments and partnerships with a view to identifying with serious investors and business owners as part of efforts to provide catalyst for socioeconomic growth and development for wealth creation, job opportunities and revenue base improvement.
In his submittion, Senior Legal Programme Officer, International Senior Lawyers Project, Eniye Ogbebor revealed that collaboration was to provide pro- bono services for economic development adding that they had been able to develop initiatives on the effective use of Public Private Partnership (PPP), through the PPP Office and the Office of the Attorney-General in the state as the team is determined to offer international standard legal services that would achieve desired results and attract more local and foreign direct investments and partnerships to the state.
