With few days to the Eid-el-Fitri celebration, the Government of Osun State has concluded arrangements to provide free train services for its citizens who wish to travel home for the festival.
In a statement issued by the Director Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Office of the Governor, Semiu Okanlawon, the government announced that the free train service would be offered between Thursday and Sunday.
Okanlawon pointed out that the train would at 11am convey people from Lagos to Osogbo on Thursday, while the return journey to Lagos would start by 11am on Sunday.
He noted that the gesture was in line with Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s administration’s initiative to make life better for the ordinary people of the state.
He said: “The government of Aregbesola is a people-friendly government, a government totally committed to unlocking the latent potentials in our people.
“And we must sustain the strategy we have employed to ginger our people’s interests in coming home and also enhance the tourism potentials of the state.
“We therefore use this opportunity to urge our people to grab this unique opportunity provided by the government and join the ride to spend your Eid-el-Fitri holiday in Osun where you stand the chance to get closer to the most endowed tourist land in the South-West.”
While stating that the gesture was aimed at facilitating stress-free homecoming for the people during the festival, Okanlawon recalled that the state government had since 2011 been making such similar arrangements for people of the state to travel home during festive seasons.
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