Ogun State Government has unveil an Agro-Shop market otherwise known as ‘Oja-Irorun’ at the State Secretariat, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, in order to bring retail business in agriculture closer to the civil servants in the state.
The Head of Service, Alhaja Selimot Ottun, while flagging off the Agro-Shop at the State Secretariat, commended the Ministry of Agriculture under the Commissionership of Dr. Adeola Odedina for the initiate, saying that it would save the workers the stress of going to township markets after work.
Ottun said that the establishment Agro-Shop market explained the workers-friendly policies of Governor Dapo Abiodun led administration where civil servant could easily buy fresh and quality farm products at affordable prices for their domestic uses.
She said that workers could now purchase goods at the secretariat including palm oil, garri, pepper, tomatoes, rice, vegetable oil, yam, to mention few, noting that the opening of the market would make the government workers spend less on food commodity.
The Head of Service, while noting that the goods from the market have nutritional values, urged the workers to patronise the the Agro-Shop, stressing that they are fresh products that comes directly from farm, which is nutritional and could save their health from danger.
She said” This initiative of retail business is another symbolic achievement in the efficient service delivery of the Ministry of Agriculture. As a matter of fact the Oja-Irorun is fast becoming an important market where all Civil servants can buy quality agricultural products for their domestic uses.”
“And by opening of this retail shop at the market, it will continue to guarantee the Civil servants of availability of fresh and quality farm products at affordable price. We will no longer need to go through the usual stress of going to the township market.”
“To me, this is quality service delivery at very cheaper and right price . In fact, eating healthy foods will continue to save for us a lot of money on medicine and other materials to keep ourselves fits and healthy. And making such purchase here at our door steps will save us a lot of man-power hours” she added
Earlier, the Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr. Odedina, said that the Agro-Shop market was established at the Secretariat to espouse the civil servants to nutritious food and avoid buying adulterated products
He said “We want to expose our workers nutritious food, food that they can eat to boost their immunity it is not only ginger and garlic that we need in this difficult time we need value headed products clean products, unadulterated products that will boost our immunity and our health”
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Dr. Dotun Sorunke, on his own part, said that the civil servants would benefit from the Agro-Shop immensely because the products being sold at the market are save, cheaper and fit for human consumption.
