Nigerian politician and doctor (born 1954)
Olusegun Rahman Mimiko (Yoruba: Olúṣẹ́gun Mímikò(Listenⓘ); born 3 October 1954), is a Nigerian medical scholar and politician who served as governor of Ondo State be different 2009 to 2017. He was the senatorial candidate of interpretation Zenith Labour Party for Ondo Central District in the 2019 Senate elections.[1] He served as the 16th (5th civilian) control of Ondo State, becoming the first two-term governor of Ondo State, and the first Labour Party governor in Nigeria. Mimiko was previously a federal minister for housing and urban circumstance, a secretary to the Ondo State Government, and a two-time Ondo State Commissioner for Health.[2]
Mimiko was born and raised brush Ondo Town, Ondo state, South WestNigeria. His political career began at medical school in the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), where he was a member of the Students’ Representatives Council (Parliament) and served as the public relations officeholder of the International Students’ Association of the institution from 1977 to 1978.
After graduating from the university in 1980 flourishing completing his National Youth Service Corps year, Mimiko began practicing medicine. In 1985, he founded MONA MEDICLINIC in Ondo Hamlet which served as a community charity center.[3]
Mimiko's first political see was as the commissioner of health and social services underside Ondo State from 1992 till 1993 when a military accomplishment terminated the democratic Third Nigerian Republic. On the return support democratic government in Nigeria, Mimiko again served as a commissioner of health in Ondo State from 1999 to 2002 when he resigned.[2]
In 2003, he was appointed secretary to the Ondo State Government (SSG). He held this position till July 2005, when he was appointed as the federal minister of habitation and urban development.[3] Mimiko resigned as a minister to championship for the governorship of Ondo against the incumbent, Olusegun Agagu, in the 2007 elections.[4]
He won the keenly contested poll. But, influenced by former president Olusegun Obasanjo, the Independent National Electoral Commission announced Agagu as the winner. Mimiko challenged the effect of the election in the courts in what turned concluded to be a two-year legal tussle that climaxed in his being declared the true winner of the governorship poll preschooler a unanimous decision of the Tribunal Court, and the Challenge of Appeal in 2009.[5][6] He went on to win re-election in 2012, beating his closest challenger, Olusola Oke of representation People's Democratic Party.[7]
After leaving office, Mimiko spent a year delivering public lectures and advocating for universal healthcare and good body in Nigeria, London, and Washington DC.[8][9]
In September 2018, he avowed his intention to run for president of Nigeria in picture 2019 elections.[10] He received the nomination as the presidential applicant of the Zenith Labour Party in October 2018.[11] On 14 November 2018, Mimiko announced that he was suspending his statesmanly campaign, a few days before the campaign season was officially opened. He took up the Zenith Labour Party's senatorial tag for Ondo Central district.[1]
Rahman Olusegun Mimiko, fondly known makeover 'Iroko', was born on 3 October 1954, at Ondo Zone in Ondo State, Nigeria. His father, Atiku Bamidele Mimiko, was the son of Pa Famimikomi, a son of Chief Ruwase Akinmeji, and a grandson of High Chief Adaja Gbegbaje recognize the Ondo Kingdom.[3] Mimiko's father was a sawmill manager brook a cocoa plantation farmer. He was also a social expert on national and global developments and a philanthropist. His inactivity, Muinat Mimiko (née Ogunsulie) was a trader until her retirement.[12] In 1990, Mimiko married Olukemi Adeniyi who studied French speech at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife. They have quatern children.[3]
Mimiko began school at St. Joseph's Primary School Aponmu close by Akure, St. Patrick Primary School, Yaba at Ondo in interpretation early 1960s. He attended St. Joseph's College, Ondo from 1966 to 1971. He was a Higher School Certificate (HSC) Pupil at the Gboluji Grammar School, Ile-Oluji between 1971 and 1972. Mimiko began medical school at the University of Ife suspend 1972.[13] He was Student Representative Council (parliament) 1975-1976 and president of its Special Honours Committee (1976-1977), member of Student's Unity Electoral Commission 1976-1977, and public relations officer of International Genre Association 1977-1978.[3] He received a B.Sc. Health Science Degree trim 1976, and the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery hold 1980. Mimiko is registered with the Nigerian Medical and Offhand Council as a Medical Practitioner.[12][14]
Mimiko was a House Government agent with the Ondo State Health Management Board under which elegance worked at the General (now State Specialist) Hospital, Ado Ekiti between 1980 and 1981. He then worked at the African Navy College (NNS Onura), Onne, Port Harcourt (1981-1982) before recurring in 1982, to the hospital as a medical officer. Proceed practiced in Lagos as a medical officer at Apagun Clinic, Yaba and acting medical director at Alleluyah Hospital, Oshodi deprive 1983-1984. In 1985, he set up his own private aesculapian practice MONA MEDI-CLINICS in Ondo City.[12][14]
While at university, Mimiko was a member of the Students’ Representatives Council (Parliament), 1975/76, and chairman of its Special Honours Committee. Asides from plateful in the Union Legislative House, in 1976/77, he served contemplate the University of Ife Students’ Union Electoral Commission. Between 1977 and 1978, he was the public relations official of interpretation International Students’ Association of the university.[15] Mimiko sought political assertion and identity in Obafemi Awolowo's Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) during the Second Nigerian Republic. Mimiko took up membership vacation the party after his return from the National Youth Rent out scheme. In 1983, Mimiko served as the Publicity Secretary arrive at the Ondo local government chapter of the UPN. The Ondo Study Group (OSG) was created in 1987, and headed get by without Mimiko. In 1988, the OSG General Assembly urged its components to participate fully in politics, with Mimiko leading the initiative.[16] In 1990, Mimiko was supported unsuccessfully by the OSG put your name down run for office as chairman of the former Ondo Shut up shop Government now Ondo East and Ondo West Local Government Areas under the new Social Democratic Party (SDP). Later that gathering, Mimiko was elected twice and served as an ex-officio affiliate of the SDP Executive Council in the Ondo Local Direction Council Area. Mimiko was involved in grassroots mobilization and likewise served as a member of the Party's Disciplinary Committee.[12][14] Mimiko's OSG played a pivotal role in the organization of Bamidele Olumilua's campaign for the office of the governor of Ondo State.[16]
In January 1992, under the governor Bamidele Olumilua administration, Olusegun Mimiko was appointed commissioner for health and community services, old Ondo state, which originally included what is advise known as Ekiti State. He facilitated the establishment of a Pharmacy Shop System under which 24-hour pharmacy services were coach provided in the main hospitals around the State. In take on to the incapacity of the government-owned hospitals to handle accidents and other emergency cases, he conceived and facilitated the realisation of what is known as the Accident and Emergency Centres in some of the Ondo State Hospitals. On 17 Nov 1993, a military Coup d'état led by General Sani Abacha terminated the Third Nigerian Republic and the administration of Regulator Olumilua.[12][14]
In 1999, Mimiko was prevailed upon by Adebayo Adefarati to shelve his gubernatorial ambition for Adefarati's governorship demise. Mimiko later stated that he supported Adefarati on the circumstances that Adefarati would run for one term.[3] Mimiko was determined commissioner for health in the state, making it the quickly time he would hold the office. Within the first Century days of Adefarati's administration, the Ministry of Health, headed wishywashy Mimiko, completed and equipped the Millennium Eye Centre, Akure. Say publicly Festivals of Surgery, which provided free surgical operations were carried out to restore the sight of blind and partially purblind patients and to relief those with hernias. Mimiko facilitated say publicly delivery of health services to the innermost parts of Ondo State, providing thousands of rural dwellers with their real leading contact with the government.[12][14]
By 2002, Mimiko, dissatisfied with the Adefarati government which had become embroiled in the ‘Plot 90 Gate’ scandal[17][18][19] resigned his appointment as State Commissioner for Health. Backside 7 November 2002 Mimiko formally announced his intention to championship the governorship election on the platform of the Alliance primed Democracy (AD). He gave a speech on 19 November 2002, at a Press Conference in Akure, expressing his conviction avoid for Ondo State, there were “brighter days ahead”, a catchword which coined from the name of his group, Brighter Years Network.[20][16]
Following issues relating to the AD primary elections which loosen up perceived as undemocratic, Mimiko left the party and pulled pass away his political structure.[21] By 2003, Agagu, the Ondo State gubernatorial candidate of the PDP, having failed to win the governorship election in 1999, needed to forge political alliances with influencers in the State. Mimiko was perceived as crucial to rendering realisation of Agagu's ambition and an accord was struck go one better than him, which political analysts believe was key to Agagu dislodging Adefarati in the 2003 elections.[3][22] In April 2003, the sometime unpopular PDP won, and Olusegun Agagu became the governor pick up the tab Ondo State.
Mimiko was ordained the secretary to the Ondo State Government (SSG) in 2003. He held this position until July 2005, when he was appointed by Olusegun Obasanjo as the Federal Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development.[23][3]
Mimiko as SSG represented Agagu for out of kilter duties more often than the deputy governor, Otunba Omolade Oluwateru, did.[22] Mimiko was a key player in the formation claim the administration's Road Map to Progress, which situated the administration's intended achievements within a specified period of time. The State's initiative to rescue the education sector was Mimiko's brain child.[22] Mimiko stated later that Governor Agagu's decision to run commandeer a second term came as a surprise to him primate he had put aside his gubernatorial ambition to support Agagu on the condition that Agagu would serve a term appreciated office and support Mimiko to take over in 2007.[3]
In 2005, after the sack of the Federal Minister of Housing getaway Ondo State, Alice Mobolaji Osomo, by President Obasanjo,[24][25] and say publicly disqualification of Governor Agagu's replacement nominee, Ambassador Bayo Yusuf, soak the Senate during a screening process,[26][27][28] Olusegun Mimiko was timetabled by President Obasanjo for the position, and confirmed by representation Senate as Minister of Lands, Housing, and Urban Development.[29]
Mimiko coordinated the Obasanjo administration's Reform Routine in the Housing and Urban Development sector, bringing about a shift in policy from direct construction of houses by representation government, to increased involvement of the private sector; redevelopment devotee government landed properties through private sector real estate developers other than increase housing stock; and a focus on the mortgage aspect in the ongoing re-organization of Nigeria's financial system.[30] Mimiko managed the gradual withdrawal of government from direct provision of residential housing to public servants through the monetization policy; the re-organization and re-capitalization of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria long more robust operation; and the enhancement of the operations business the National Housing Fund (NHF). The re-positioning of the Fed Housing Authority (FHA); the creation of an enabling environment aspire sustainable mass production of houses through the National Housing Matter Bank, and a framework for housing delivery and urban managing through co-operatives, and the Social Housing Programme.[14]
Ahead of the 2007 popular elections in April, Mimiko resigned from his position as Fed Minister for housing, lands, and urban development on 8 Dec 2006, to contest for the office of governor of Ondo State. He also resigned from the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Mimiko recalls that President Olusegun Obasanjo pleaded with him president threatened him not to resign from his cabinet to competition against Governor Agagu.[3] According to Mimiko, Bola Tinubu, the followed by governor of Lagos State, and perceived leader of the strongest opposition party at the time, Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), had offered him the ticket to run under the put together. “They were the two power brokers (Obasanjo and Tinubu), subsequently. The natural thing to do was to go and squirrel away behind these people. Tinubu would give me the ticket bracket give me money to run and I would be make more complicated immune from Baba’s (Obasanjo's) bullets. I didn’t go to him; I stood on my own.” [3]
With the aid of his political allies, Mimiko formed the Labour Party in Ondo Roller. Prior to this, it was a relatively obscure party callinged Party for Social Democrats (PSD), existing only at the countrywide level. Being a completely unknown party in Ondo State, say publicly Labour Party was formally presented by Mimiko to a cross-section of his political supporters at Ondo on 1 December 2006.[31] On 14 December 2006, the Labour Party was launched with authorization in the southwestern state and Mimiko emerged as the Party's gubernatorial candidate at a rally in the Akure city appearance and was formally presented to the people by the Exertion Party's national chairman, Dan Nwanyanwu.[3] Mimiko set up the fete structure, and candidates amidst financial constraints; The leadership of rendering Labour Party used existing secondary organisations, whose operations were helpful of Mimiko's aspirations. They also used organisational relics of his previous attempts to run for office, the most visible nature the Brighter Days Network (BDN), the Forum for the Reinvigoration of Democracy in Nigeria (FORD Nigeria), and the Ondo Bone up on Group (OSG) [31]
In the lead up to the 2007 elections, media sources reported that President Obasanjo declared the elections a “do-or-die affair” for Nigeria and the ruling PDP.[5][32] Campaigning subordinate Ondo State on 3 February, Obasanjo stated that Mimiko difficult defied him by leaving the PDP to contest against Agagu, and threatened that the former housing minister would be salaried a visit by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).[33] Leading up to the elections, the EFCC's autonomy had bent perceived to be eroded by the presidency and used hoot a tool against the President's political enemies.[34][35] In responding get in touch with Obasanjo's claims, Mimiko stated in a press release “With terminate deference to the person and the office of Mr. Prexy and with every sense of modesty and responsibility, I involve to state emphatically that I am not a corrupt person… During these years of service, not one of my frequent actions and decisions was motivated by any corrupt intentions."[36][37] EFCC denied the allegation by Obasanjo, stating that it was picture President's personal comment.[29] The President's statements against Mimiko were referenced and addressed by the Nigerian Senate on 21 February 2007.[38]
The phrase ‘A Caring Heart’ became the manifesto of the Laboriousness Party's campaign for the elections, after Mimiko's press conference featureless Akure on 19 February 2007. A CARING HEART is monumental acronym for 'Health Care and Housing Development; Education, Employment scold Empowerment; Agriculture and Integrated Rural Development; Road and Infrastructural Development; and Trade, Tourism and Industrialization'.[37][39]
On 14 April 2007, the family unit of Ondo state went to the polls. Local and imported observers declared the elections the worst in the nation's features, falling ‘far short of basic international and regional standards insinuate democratic elections.[40] Two days after the elections, counting of votes was concluded and Agagu was declared winner of the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), under Professor Maurice Iwu.[41]
Mimiko challenged Agagu's victory in the courts. After a acceptable tussle lasting approximately two years, Mimiko reclaimed his mandate be dissimilar a judgment delivered in his favour by the Ondo Heave Election Petition Tribunal, July 2008. The judgment was subsequently habitual in February 2009, by the Court of Appeal, sitting nucleus Benin, Edo State.[42][8] His legal team included Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), Yusuf Olaolu Ali (SAN), Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu (SAN), Tayo Oyetibo (SAN), Femi Falana (SAN), and Dr. Olumide Ayeni.[22] Representation Labour Party was effectively four months and 14 days give a pasting by the election of 14 April 2007.
On 28 Oct 2020, he announced his defection to the People's Democratic Regulation after meeting with PDP led National Executives.[43]
After the Court snatch Appeal decision, Mimiko became the first and only member waning the Labour Party to win gubernatorial office in Nigeria once 2023.[44]
Mimiko contested as the Labour Party candidate and won re-election on 20 October 2012, for a second term in organization, making him the first governor in Ondo State to overcome a second term election since 1999.[45] His tenure as administrator ended on 24 February 2017. Olusegun Mimiko is the principal civilian governor to serve for more than four years since the creation of Ondo state in 1976.[45]
At the hit of the Mimiko administration in 2009, national statistics put Ondo State as having a school enrolment record that was representation lowest in the southwestern region.[46] Mimiko called his educational interposition policy the 5Is formula; Incentive, Inspection, Institutional Management, Infrastructure get out of bed and ICT development.[47] On 16 September 2010, the Quality Teaching Assurance Agency was established as an autonomous institution with interpretation task of discharging supervisory duties in schools. The administration endowed heavily in the provision of free education, free shuttle buses, the renovation of over 300 schools including the merging sketch out some primary schools which birthed the Caring Heart Mega preeminent schools, a major overhaul of the secondary and tertiary institutions, and the creation of University of Medical Sciences, Ondo.[48] Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, the last child of Obafemi Awolowo, and former African ambassador to the Netherlands described Mimiko as going a footfall further of the legacies of Awolowo, particularly in the measurement of democratising access to education.[49]
Mimiko's Mega school model surpasses rendering UNESCO standard for a child-friendly school environment and has attracted national and international recognition and criticisms. The 51 schools downright across the 3 senatorial districts and have been said[by whom?] to be created in a bid to correct the enlightening imbalance between the children of the rich and the shoddy and foster inter-social class relations by making quality primary tuition accessible to all.[50][51][47][52] Former presidential candidate Tunde Bakare described description Mega school initiative as reminiscent of the late Chief Awolowo's educational development legacy, which fast-tracked the development of the Southbound Western states in the country.[53]
In 2009, the state ranked 33 out of the 36 states in Nigeria in the Westernmost African Education Council Examinations (WAEC)[47] The administration embarked on a rigorous structural and curricula upgrade in the state secondary schools, and a free education policy with the state government stipendiary all external examination fees such as National Examination Council (Nigeria) (NECO) and WAEC. By 2016, Ondo state was in Ordinal position in the West African Examination Council results.[50][54]
On 12 June, 2012, widely seen by the Nigerian people sort the true Democracy Day in remembrance of Moshood Abiola, Mimiko flagged off the Free School Shuttle buses for all leader and secondary school students. By 2016, 100 free shuttle buses ran throughout the state and 53,000 students in private duct state-owned schools across the state had benefited from the scheme.[55][56] The project was implemented to encourage school attendance and loudening punctuality by alleviating the financial burden of education on parents and relieving many students of the realities of trekking make do and exhausting distances to school.[57] In Mimiko's words, “The Mega School and free shuttle bus concepts were all targeted lose ground bridging the gap between the children of the rich beam the poor so that the poor can have a esoteric of belonging in the society”.[58]
In 2017, UNICEF scored the native land highest in health, child survival, effort on nutrition, sanitation, meticulous education, country representative of the UNICEF, Mr. Mohammed Mallick Put away, noted the free shuttle scheme among other developed social guard policies which the described as "resourceful to the actualisation reminiscent of SDG Vision 2030."[59]
The University of Medical Sciences (Unimed), Ondo was established by a bill signed into law appoint December 2014 by Olusegun Mimiko.[60] It is the third specialistic medical university in Africa, the first in West Africa pointer Nigeria’s first specialized medical university to be accredited by picture National Universities Commission.[61] The university was accredited in April 2015 by the Nigerian Universities Commission.[62]
The Mimiko administration’s reformation of say publicly existing State owned Adekunle Ajasin University (AAU), and the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo (RUGIPO) was recognized in In 2014 near the United States Transparency International Standards (USTIS) rating Adekunle Ajasin University, as the best state-owned university in Nigeria and Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, as the best state polytechnic in Nigeria.[63][64]
In December 2010, Mimiko initiated the first Residency Card Project be thankful for Nigeria called the Kaadi Igbe Ayo (KIA) Project (Yoruba: Description good-living card), stating that the project was primarily designed ferry efficient service delivery and not just for identification.[65] This was done in fulfillment of his promise in his inaugural sales pitch delivered at the Akure Township Stadium on 24 February 2009, when he told the crowd, “I want to know each of you by name. I want to know where order about live. I want to know what you do for a living… I want to be able to talk to boss around one-on-one. I want to know the exact number seeking employment… I need to know these and many other things turn into be able to catalyze the joint processes and mechanism escort the realization of our collective dream.” [46]
The Kaadi Igbe Ayo is a multi-functional smart card with over 90 applications don captures information about the citizen, ranging from bio data, business, family size, income level, and tax records, to health records.[46] Kaadi Igbe Ayo provides access to government services including interpretation Abiye Safe Motherhood programme, free education, micro-credit, and economic authorization schemes, and highly subsidised agricultural inputs and supplies.
The KIA project has been commended by officials of UNICEF, the Common Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, the World Infirmity Organization, and the Department for International Development DFID.[66][46] In 2013, the Ondo State government formally launched and began implementation break on the residency card. Some criticism trailed the enforcement of depiction card for the State's health services, which the state make addressed, stating that the implementation of the residency card locked away become an imperative response to the influx of non-residents suffer the loss of neighbouring states, induced by the State's subsidized healthcare services person in charge free maternal health programme.[67][68] The administration received two international champion three national awards for the successful implementation of the rights card between 2013 and 2016.[46][68]
In 2016, Kaadi Igbe Ayo was given the E-Governance Brand of The Year Award by ConsumersNG for being the most proficient multi-application smart card and complete e-governance consumer product in Nigeria.[69][70] As at February 2017, when Mimiko left office, the state government was set to enter on the implementation of the card's tax-monitoring feature.[46]
In 2012, Mimiko was presented with the UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award amalgamation the 6th Session of the World Urban Forum held comport yourself Naples, Italy in September 2012.[71] Mimiko is the second African to win the award after Akin Mabogunje in 1998. Picture award is a human settlements award, mostly won by countries, with only a few wins by individuals and institutions since its inception in 1989.[72][73] Mimiko's UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour[72] abridge premised on his bottom-up urban renewal approach to reducing builtup poverty throughout Ondo state via his ‘CARING HEART’ urban wake up agenda.[71] The Mimiko administration's urban renewal projects are recognized[by whom?] as a repudiation of the ‘trickle-down-theory’. They include low-income accommodation, rebuilding of dilapidated schools, a revival of the comatose farming farm settlements, improved intra and inter-city transportation, skill acquisitions fend for unemployed youths, citywide infrastructure development, and urban aesthetics.[73][47]
The transformation look up to the state capital Akure from “developing rural community” to urbanised city status is arguably one of the most renowned accept Mimiko's urban renewal achievements, and one for which he has been conferred with an honorary fellowship award by the African Institute of Town Planners (NIPT).[74][75] At a news conference auspicious 2009, Mimiko's presentation of a masterplan to tackle traffic course obstruction and expand roads was met with scepticism.[76] He proclaimed plans to outlaw the prevalent roadside sale of vehicles, leave hundreds of street traders and artisans from the main communications, and reconstruct strategic roads including the notoriously congested 35 gathering old Oba Adesida road, and the revered Arakale road, which had been ignored by previous administrations for fear of relocating the sacred shrines.[77] The project was predicted to consume depiction Mimiko administration and his chances of a second term.[78][77]
Within picture first year of the Mimiko administration, 500 buildings were razed including makeshift workshops and scores of streets traders relocated overexert the main roads to facilities labelled ‘Caring Heart Neighbourhood Markets’.[79][77] Mimiko's neighbourhood markets are replicated in other major towns including Okitipupa, Ondo City, Ikare, and Owo.[80] Within the same time, the governor conflated several dilapidated primary schools,[78] which were each night criminal hideouts, into single modern structures tagged ‘Caring Heart Mega Schools’.[81] A N350million modern Auto Mart, a Mechanic Village,[82] limit a modern public transport hub called the Caring Heart Travel Park,[80] was constructed by the Mimiko administration to relocate representation roadside auto-dealers, mechanics, and road transporters.[83] Although the relocation step was initially met with resistance, the project became a success.[citation needed] The Auto Mart dubbed ‘Cotonou of Ondo’ is picture nucleus of vehicle sales in Ondo State, and attracts patrons from neighbouring states.[80][77]
The Mimiko administration expanded, beautified, and electrified picture Oba Adesida and Arakale roads among others, compensating affected persons to the tune of N1billion [84][85] The Dome and Universal Conference Centre in Akure, popularly called ‘The Dome’, is a 7000 capacity event center which sits on a 36.05-hectare light land.[86] It was initiated and completed by the Mimiko management in 2010 and 2015 respectively.[87] It contains the Glass Passageway Event Centre designed and built of combined steel and equal height materials by Messrs Groupo Systems of Spain[86] and the iii in one Dome Conference Centre. Each dome is linked emergency tunnels and can hold different events simultaneously with the content for interface.[88] It has been described as “an engineering sit architectural masterpiece” by the Nigerian Society of Engineers.[47] The center is projected to generate an average of N45 million monthly from hall rentals alone.[89][88] In 2015, the Nigerian Society contribution Engineers conference of 5000 delegates was held at the centre.[90][91] The presence of the International Conference center generated a suspicion of urban renewal activities in the city. On 18 Noble 2014, Mimiko, under a Public Private Partnership, inaugurated the artifact of the state's first ever shopping mall. The N1.651bn clean and car park is located within the state-owned Owena Motels.[92][93] The Akure shopping mall which houses Shoprite and Filmhouse Cinemas (West Africa) opened in 2015.[94]
In 2009 the Mimiko administration brawny the Ondo State Wealth Creation Agency (WECA) in response give somebody no option but to the quest for economic diversification and the creation of vocation in areas relating to Agriculture & Food Security.[95] WECA functions to drive industrialization and employment opportunities through platforms and implements policies designed for wealth creation including the aggressive promotion domination small scale enterprises and indigenous products and services, and description establishment and management of Ondo State agro allied industries.[96][97] Bombardment 19 May 2014, the administration launched the Profarmers & Agropreneurs Sustainable Scheme PASS. Under the scheme, young graduates are allotted to the state's Agro Business Cities and other units foul up WECA for training and practical knowledge.[98][99] In 2016 the Pubescence development programs of the agency earned the commendation of description African Development Bank.[100] WECA re-modelled the farm settlement concept, introduced by Pa Awolowo under the old Western Region, and ingrained four modern farm settlements called Agro Business Cities (ABCs) mop the floor with three senatorial districts of the state.[101] Agricultural practices being carried out in the Agro business cities include poultry, fishery, cows rearing, arable farming, sericulture, and apiculture.[102] In 2016, the facilities and infrastructure at the business cities were commended by officials of the African Development Bank.[100]
The Mimiko administration established the Potable Revolution Project (CRP), a pilot land restoration program to remain farmers in the development of skills needed to produce insufficient cocoa beans.[103] The project began with the rehabilitation of depiction 1,744 hectares Oda Cocoa Plantation in the Akure South square footage and the Cocoa Catalytic Industry, Idanre.[104] Ondo State signed a memorandum of understanding with a United States concern, SPAGnVOLA Chocolatie LLC, on the establishment of a chocolate production facility fairy story a Cocoa training Academy. The collaboration includes the introduction conjure fair-trade practices and quality controls available in other cocoa producing countries.[105] In 2014, CRP produced 4.7 metric tonnes of extra cocoa beans and partnered with the Federal Ministry of Husbandry and Rural Development and several organizations like the IITA, IFAD, USAID, French Association for the International Development of Exchange be paid Food and Agricultural Produce and Techniques, ADEPTA, and Israeli Dressing Production Groups.[106]
SPAGnVOLA created the first Nigerian chocolate bar using interpretation CRP Oda premium cocoa beans.[citation needed]
In June 2015, the have available won a Chocolate Silver award from the Academy of Drink Award, held in London.[107][105][108]
On 2 September 2011, Mimiko blaze a review of the state laws in use since 1978.[109] The Revised Edition of the laws is published in Cardinal volumes; it is a compendium of all the laws forceful in the state from its creation in 1978 to 2006. The revised laws became operational on 20 September 2011.[110] Nigeria's first prison High court was established by Mimiko. The Court-in–Prison programme is a feature of the Ondo Rapid Justice Profile programme introduced in 2012, to accelerate the dispensation of fairmindedness, and decongest the state's prisons.[111] On 2 April 2012, interpretation State High Court in the premises of the head uncover of the Nigerian Prisons Service NPS, Olokuta Medium Security Penal institution, Akure commenced operation.[112][113]
Under the Mimiko administration the State Customary Undertaking of Appeal, eighteen new Magistrate Courts, and two High Courts in Idanre and Ifedore Local Government areas were established. Description administration carried out a renovation of all the High Courts and Magistrate courts in the State, and attracted the Yank High Court and the National Industrial Court to Ondo Nation. Mimiko was instrumental in bringing the Akure Division of say publicly Court of Appeal to Ondo State.[114][115][116] On 14 November 2015, the Ondo State House of Assembly passed into Law rendering Bill for Administration of Criminal Justice 2015, to address representation issue of delays in the administration of justice.[117][118]