When the Federal Ministry of Works officials visited Ogun State last year to assess the conditions of roads in the state, the presidential audit team, led by the Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Engineer Ejike Egbemena, lauded the state government for its massive investments in road construction and its intervention on failed portions of the state and federal roads in its domains.
The team though commended the governor, stated that a lot still needed to be done to ameliorate the suffering of the people.
The residents have also shown some resistance, when they discovered that some of their buildings would have to give way for the rehabilitation exercise before they eventually succumbed to the governor’s palliatives.
Apart from the federal roads that were rehabilitated, the government in his transformation agenda and mission to rebuild the state rolled out some programmes, which include the rehabilitation of major roads and link roads in the state.
These roads, which spread across the three senatorial districts, were in serious state of disrepair with commuters and residents having to go through harrowing experience before getting to their destinations.
In its bid to open up link roads and ensure free flow of vehicular movement, governor? Ibikunle Amosun on assumption of office, commenced work on the construction of some strategic link roads in the state.
The roads include, Ibara G.R.A.(beside former OGBC complex). The road links Onikolobo road in Abeokuta and Agbato Drive also known as Ositelu road in Ogere Remo in Ikenne Local Government area of the State.
Apart from these ones, Amosun also succeeded in putting machineries in motion in rehabilitating other roads across the State.
The Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Olamilekan Adegbite said that? the construction of the roads are the first set of link-roads to be constructed by Amosun administration to ease traffic jams, often encountered by motorists plying the roads.
He added that the roads are expected to be delivered within few months and are being handled by indigenous contractors, who would also patronise local people for their materials and labour, thereby providing employment for people around the areas.
But, in spite of Amosun’s effort, oppositions in the state have criticised his administration as too slow in delivering the dividends of democracy to the people. The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN) have been unsparing. The two political parties maintained that the governor had not spent the taxpayers’ money judiciously.