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Published 5 March 2021
Director-General, Development Agenda for Western Nigeria, Mr Seye Oyeleye, raises issues of security, unity and strategic planning as instruments of development as he traces the origin of insecurity and banditry in the land in this interview with
WALE OYEWALE
DAWN focuses on development in the South-West, how well has the commission fulfilled its mandate under your watch?
DAWN has been a development organisation; that was why it was set up. That is what we have been doing throughout the region in several areas over the past few years, particularly in areas of education, financing, security and agriculture, such as regional cooperation in agriculture. Everything we do here is for the development trajectory of the region. DAWN is not a political organisation as you rightly know. We don’t do projects. It is an intellectual organisation and a lot of the things we have done have been passed across to the states. A lot of technical