WELCOME TO THE OKUN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (ODA) WEBSITE
Great Minds,
It is indeed a thing of great joy for me to, on behalf of the Okun Council of Elders and the Okun Development Association (ODA) National Executive Council, welcome you to our website.
This site is the official and authorized site hoisted by the Okun Development Association, the umbrella Socio-Cultural and Developmental Organization that is the sole organ of the Okun people (the Yoruba people of Kogi State), with authority to speak and act on behalf of the people on matters affecting our interests, governance, development and sustainable livelihood.
This site is designed primarily to provide a window, through which any interested party in any part of the world will be able to catch a glimpse into diverse subject matters that affect, influence, and define life in Okun land. Hopefully, the materials that will be featured in this site will reflect events and interests in all the local governments and people that make up the Okun Nation of Kogi State. It is our hope that all Okun sons and daughters in the Diaspora will find the site particularly refreshing for obvious reasons.
Be assured that the site will adequately be secured to ensure that only authorized materials will ever get to the site. All materials to be uploaded will be processed through our quality assurance framework to ensure that such materials will only advance the cause for which the ODA was set up and promote the peace, unity and oneness of our people.
Every effort will be invested to guarantee a sustainable, robust and active website. We intend to make it a living phenomenon. This can only happen with your active support and participation. We therefore appeal that you please feel free to make materials available to us with which to feed the site.
We should please bear in mind that we never had a website before now. It should therefore not be a surprise that we emphasize the need for you as visitors to the site to give us your honest and goal-oriented suggestions that will ensure continuous improvement and enrichment of the site.
I want to put it on record that this website would have remained a mere dream but for a God-sent Okun Brother and Friend in the Diaspora, Dr. Adeolu Ireyomi. Our previous attempt two years ago to see it to fruition failed. Somehow, God recently brought us into contact with Dr. Ireyomi and I shared our vision and our constraints with him. He immediately bought into it and volunteered to make it a reality at no cost to us. He immediately set up a Project Team under the Leadership of another amiable and humble Kwara Brother and Friend, Mr. Taiwo Gideon Iranloye, the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Calm Global Information Technology Ltd, with Simeon Taiwo, Ajayi Oladimeji, Kolade Otegbade, Adewale Odufuwa and Promise Ihunna as Project Team Members. These are the burden bearers God sent our way.
How do we begin to thank these people?
Dr. Ireyomi, even though you and I are yet to meet or know each other, you have made so much impression on me from our various online interactions. Okun is blessed to have you as one of us. Your name, Ireyomi, is already a prayer in a way. This project is evidence that you are living it. Be assured, God will always answer.
Mr Taiwo Iranloye and our other Project Team Members, it is only God that can reward you, and He will. All of us at the National Executive Council of ODA say a very big thank you for your contribution to our efforts.
And to you great people of Okun Nation, now that our website is up and running, we owe ourselves and posterity only one thing: TO KEEP THE SITE ALIVE AND ACTIVE FOREVER.
Together, We Can.
Femi Mokikan
National President Okun Development Association (ODA)
Tuesday, January 26, 2021