- By Halimah Olamide
Speaker of the Ogun House of Assembly, Mr Oludaisi Elemide, says the state’s Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Ade Akinsanya, must intensify efforts on road reconstruction.
Members of the House of Assembly in Ogun state have raised concerns over the state of the roads across the state.
Their debate on Tuesday came amidst trending videos and photos of very deplorable conditions of the roads in many parts of the state.
Though the lawmakers acknowledged that the state government under Prince Dapo Abiodun has made some efforts, they concluded a lot still need to be done.
Speaker of the Ogun House of Assembly, Mr Oludaisi Elemide, says the state’s Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Ade Akinsanya, must intensify efforts on road reconstruction.
The debate arose after two lawmakers Oluseun Adesanya and Fola Salami, who reported the situation of roads in their respective constituencies.
Adesanya had called for palliative measures on the Stadium-Idomila-Idomowo-Barrack road in the Ijebu-North East local government area.
In his submission, Salami noted that there was need for the rehabilitation of Taju Bello- Hercules-Giwa road in the Ifo 2 State Constituency.
”This is important as it has caused flooding which affected some houses in area.
Also at plenary, the Principal-General (Creation of Office) Law, 2024″, scaled its first reading on the floor of the Assembly.
This was after the Clerk , Sakiru Adebakin, had read the bill for the first time before the State’s lawmakers.
NPO Reports that the state’s roads have been trending in the last few days on social media.
Many social media users have called out Governor Abiodun claiming that there are too many death traps in the state.
Social media users have shown images from Abeokuta, to Ijebu Ode, Sagamu, Ota, Akute, Alagbole, Mowe, and many others as evidences of their claims.
Specifically, a social media user, Hauwa Allabura, had taken it upon herself to post many images of the bad roads calling on the governor to fix them roads.
Allabura had also accused the state government of sponsoring attacks on her vowing not to stop but to expose the state of the roads
One of the videos she shared online is below: