Abiodun builds rehabilitation centre on 2.2 Hectares

&NewLine;<p>The Ogun State Government has acquired 2&period;2 hectares of land&NewLine;around Kobape area in Abeokuta for the construction of the proposed rehabilitation&NewLine;centre for the destitute&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The&nbsp&semi;Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Women Affairs&NewLine;and Social Development &nbsp&semi;Dr&period; Ranti Oladeinde&comma; made this known &nbsp&semi;while&NewLine;playing host to members of the State House of &nbsp&semi;Assembly Committee on Women&NewLine;Affairs and Social Development led by Hon&period; Sikiratu Ajibola&comma; who were on&NewLine;oversight visit to the Ministry at Oke-Mosan&comma; Abeokuta&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In a statement made available to OpenLife&comma; Oladeinde noted that&NewLine;by the time the centre commences operations&comma; destitute would have been taken&NewLine;off the street across the State&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Permanent Secretary stated that the Ministry has been&NewLine;rescuing destitute on the roads and making use of private rehabilitation homes&comma;&NewLine;&nbsp&semi;saying when the centre is completed&comma; it would reduce the burden of&NewLine;accommodation for rehabilitated destitute in the State&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>She disclosed that the Ministry has rescued and rehabilitated 46&NewLine;destitute and vagrant lunatics across the State within the period&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Oladeinde also said that 625 family cases were handled by the&NewLine;Social Development Area Offices domiciled in the Local Government Areas in the&NewLine;State&comma; adding that 97 estranged couples&comma; whose cases were referred to the Ministry&comma;&NewLine;have equally been reconciled&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Responding&comma; the Committee Chairman&comma; Hon&period; Ajibola in company of&NewLine;her colleagues including Honourables Modupe Mujota&comma; Lateefat Ajayi&comma; Atinuke&NewLine;Bello and Musefiu Lamidi&comma; commended the Ministry for its activities&comma; pledging&NewLine;that the Assembly would be ready to assist the Ministry when and where the need&NewLine;arises&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;