Seyi Makinde Breaks Government Workers Health Insurance Promise

Governor Seyi Makinde's explicit campaign promise to enroll "all workers under the employment of the Oyo State Government" into a state-oriented health insurance scheme by "the beginning of the second year" (May 2020) was not fulfilled. 

The deadline passed without universal enrollment of civil servants being achieved. While the administration did made progress enrolling workers into the scheme, with 30,490 enrolees recorded in the first year and approximately 64,000 registered by year two, this fell far short of enrolling "all workers" as promised. 

The promise explicitly stated universal enrollment of all government workers in collaboration with the NHIS by May 2020. By that deadline and beyond, civil servants had not been comprehensively enrolled, and the scheme remained an opt-in or partial enrollment system rather than the universal mandatory coverage promised.