Makinde, LGA Boss Commended for  Construction of Community Road

Kemi Olaitan in Ibadan

Residents of Ebedi Community Phase II in Iseyin Local Government Area of Oyo State have lauded the state Governor, Seyi Makinde, for approving the construction of 2.65 kilometre road in the community.

This is just as they also commended the LGA Chairman, Hon. Mufutau Abilawon, for making necessary support available for the project completion to be achieved.

The road network, which spanned the Asado road, Bayo Raji road, Iseyin LGA quarter’s road among others, was constructed by the local government following approval by the governor in order to ameliorate the effects of flooding and erosion in the community.

The Chairman, Landlords and Landladies Association of the community, Mr. Mustapha Ibrahim, while speaking during a meeting of the association, said the construction of the community road has eased the burden of motorists and motorcycle riders as well as opened the area to further development, lauding the contractor for a good job.

 He disclosed that the area where the largest assemblage of Garri processing factories are located would benefit more as trucks offloading cassava and those loading bags of Garri to Lagos and other commercial cities will have easy access to the area, adding that the construction of the road and culverts has saved residents from the hazards of gully erosion and flooding, which have claimed lives in the past.

According to him, “We appreciate our dear governor for doing this for us; it will be in the record that this road was constructed during his time to alleviate the suffering of the residents because it used to be a terrible network of roads within this community, but today, we can see the crisscrossing of tarred roads which has contributed to the development of our area.”

  Speaking also, the Treasurer of the association, Mrs. Ojo Oluyemisi, thanked the governor and the council chairman for deeming it fit to show good leadership traits to the people of the community, stating that the community will also benefit from its closeness to the Iseyin-Fapote-Ogbomoso road which will make residents enjoy less travel time and stress of bad road.

Meanwhile, the contractor, Raji Adebayo Ganiyu, expressed appreciation to the people of the community for their support at the outset of the project, during and after the road construction, lauding the efforts of the Construction Monitoring Committee of the community for its roles in assuring a time-tested road construction of the project with two major culverts and 21 small culverts.