, renovation of primary and secondary schools, renovation of basic and comprehensive health centres, general hospitals as well as Ekiti State Teaching Hospital where the internal roads were rehabilitated, payment of WAEC and NECO fee for students and many empowerment schemes under the Social Investment programme. There is monthly sustenance cash transfer for 15,000 Ekiti elders and monthly food support for the elderly across the state called “Ounje arugbo”.
Rural Assess and Agricultural Marketing Project , a world bank project is also intervening in some roads. On security, Ekiti has her own fair share of this general problem but the JKF administration has put in place, a good security architecture combining of the regular security agencies, Amotekun and local hunters. The safe city project is also ongoing as CCTV cameras are installed at strategic places in the State capital.
In agriculture, government has attracted many big investors like Stallion rice mill, Dangote rice mill, FMS farm, JMK farms, Promasidor etc. The Ikun diary farm has been resuscitated and is producing 80,000 liters of milk per month. Youth in Commercial Agricultural Development YCAD a programme started during JKF 1 has been sustained and over 1,000 young farmers have been empowered and they are doing well.
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