Aregbesola To Complete Inherited Road Projects

The Osun Government on Monday said it would complete work on six major road projects inherited from the previous administration in the state.

A statement issued in Osogbo by the Director, Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Mr Semiu Okanlawon , said Gov. Rauf Aregbesola directed work to continue on the projects.

The spokesman, who said work on the projects were stalled in 2010 at below 50 per cent completion level, gave an assurance that the new administration would complete them.

Okanlawon said only the Ikoyi-Oranran-Farm Settlement road out of the six roads awarded in 2006 had been completed by the previous administration.

The roads were part of the “Seven Priority Roads Projects” initiated by former Gov. Olagunsoye Oyinlola.

Of the seven roads, he added that only the 16.59-kilometre Ijebu-Jesa-Ere Ijese-Ibokun road was completed.

Okanlawon said some of the projects being targeted for completion include the rehabilitation of the 24-kilometre Ile-Ife- Famia-Akinlalu road with extension to Ibadan-Ife express way and the 30-kilometre Ejigbo-Ife-Odan-Oyo State boundary road.

Others, he said, were the 19.70-kilometre Osu-Iloba-Kajola road, the 13.6-kilometre Egbeda-Iragbiji road, the Ijebu-Igbo road and the Ibadan-Ife federal road.

He further said that the roads would connect rural areas with urban centres in order to bring succour to residents of affected areas as well as accelerate development.