The corporate social initiative arm of a leading communication service provider in the country, MTN Nigeria Foundation has donated five security patrol vehicles to Osun state government.

The Corporate Services Executive and Director of MTN Nigeria Foundatio‎n, Mr. Akinwale Goodluck during the presentation commended the State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola for his commitment in enhancing the security of the state.

Goodluck stated that the attention of the Foundation was ‎drawn to the security status of the state when it first came to Osogbo for her Iris Eye project in 2013, saying the peace that envelope the state to the team was unprecedented.

He pointed out that the foundation would do its best to partner with the state in her determination to develop the state to an enviable height among the committee of states in Nigeria.

The Foundation boss said, “we have the best result on our first coming during our Iris Cataract surgery and other eye problems that we attended to in 2013.

“We have identified several areas that we can help, when we came then. We saw a lot of patrol vans and other security improvements and it is because of that that we have come to contribute our quota to the development of the already existing security in Osun”. Goodluck said.

Responding, Governor Aregbesola noted that what the foundation noticed in terms of the security in the state was borne out the administration’s commitment to providing an atmosphere where lives and businesses can thrive.

He highlighted other areas where ‎the foundation can also be of help as the education sector where the state government is seriously committed to basic education, saying the state has provided a model of basic education to other states and the Federal government.

Aregbesola stated that security patrol vans presented to the state would be distributed to relevant security agencies in the state, adding that the vehicles will in no small way add to the efficiency of Police and other agencies in bringing crime to a zero level in the state.
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He enjoined the service provider to improve on their data service connectivity in most of the towns of the state, stressing that the service provided stands to benefit from the various towns and higher institutions that the state is blessed with if data service is improved on.