The Commissioner for Environment in Oyo State, Kehinde Ayoola, has been reported dead.
Reports have it that Ayoola, former Speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly, had been sick for some time before his death on Thursday.
Ayoola was Speaker between 1999 and 2003, representing Oyo East/West State Constituency under the Alliance for Democracy, during the administration of late Lam Adesina as the state governor.
He was appointed as Commissioner for Environment following Governor Seyi Makinde’s inauguration in 2019.
Under his watch as the Environment Commissioner, the Oyo State Government inaugurated four environmental tribunals for the enforcement of the state environmental laws.
He was a graduate of Animal Science and Environmental Management and Control, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and married to a Professor of Agronomy. He was a member, Association of Environmental Impact Assessment of Nigeria.
May his soul rest in peace.