By Gbenga Olarinoye

OSOGBO—Osun State House of Assembly has called on the security agencies in the state to be proactive  towards ensuring that lives and properties are protected in the Saturday’s bye-election in Ife Central Constituency of the state.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has fixed April 9 for the election to fill the vacant seat of Ife Central constituency in the Assembly following the death of the late Dejo Makinde on December 27, 2015.

Makinde, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP was until his death the Minority Leader of the House.

In a statement by the Chairman, House Committee on Information and Strategy, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, the Assembly said every machinery should be set in motion to ensure violence free election.

Ooni canvasses agric revolution

Meantime, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja 11, has charged government at all levels to ensure massive agricultural revolution in the country to achieve food security for the citizenry.

According to him, the country should seize the opportunity of the current economic recession occasioned by the fall in oil revenue to go back to land and cultivate both cash and food crops for industries and consumption.

The royal father spoke at a one day forum of plantain innovation cluster/stakeholders interactive session, a presentation of Humid Tropics and Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, FARA, at Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife.