The Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, has issued three Executive Orders establishing two new agencies. The new agencies are Ogun State Mineral Resources Development Agency and Ogun State Landscaping and Recreation Agency. Abiodun, through the third executive order, barred traditional rulers from entering into any form of agreement or Memorandum of Understanding concerning mining activities or any other land matters in their domains.

The governor gave this marching order in a statement issued on Saturday by his Special Adviser on Media and Strategy, Kayode Akinmade. According to the statement, the three executive orders take immediate effect. The governor said, “Ogun state has rich and vast deposits of mineral resources which must be explored responsibly, judiciously and without detriment to the environmental ecosystem in mining areas.

”Now by the authority vested in me as the governor of Ogun State under the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 constitution as amended, Prince Adedapo Oluseun Abiodun hereby other than an agency to be known as the Ogun State Mineral Resources Development Agency is hereby established. “The Agency shall directly or through qualified third parties, conduct and establish working relationships with host communities and local governments for the conduct of geotechnical and geological surveys of solid mineral deposits within their domains; geotechnical survey of solid mineral deposits in the State and maintain relevant data i.