FG owes Ogun govt. over N300bn for road repairs – Gov. Abiodun

Ogun State Governor, Mr. Dapo Abiodun has said that the federal government is owning the state over N300 billion as money spent on the rehabilitation of federal roads across the state.

The governor disclosed this while playing host to members of Igbobi College Old Boys Association who paid him a courtesy call in his Oke Mosan office, Abeokuta, the state capital

Lamenting the deplorable condition of most of the federal roads in the state, the governor  said a sum of N13bn would be needed to reconstruct the failed portions of the Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta expressway, adding that N75 billion would be needed to fix the entire stretch of the road.

“The Federal Government is owing Ogun State over N300 billion for the various federal roads we have constructed so far.

“Concerning the Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta expressway, when the engineers were asked to assess the road, they put the cost of reconstructing the failed portions at about N13bn, while the sum of N75bn will be needed to reconstruct the entire stretch of the road. Our State does not have such amount of money”, Abiodun said.

Speaking on his administration’s achievements in the last two and a half years, Abiodun said interventions had been carried out in the education, health, agriculture and road infrastructure and Information Technology, stressing that a Tech Hub had been established to chart a pathway to technological innovations in the state.

He noted that the security architecture in the state had been rejigged to create a conducive business environment.

He further noted that the local fabric of Adire had been revolutionised to enable the people to benefit from its value chain, while 7,000 hectares industrial cluster had been opened at Magboro town, with necessary facilities for investors’ attraction.

The governor called on investors to take advantage of numerous potentials available in the state, saying that land acquisition, hitherto done haphazardly, had been digitised.

“A business promotion agency has also been established for the seamless business relationship between government and investors”,

He emphasized the need for old students associations, NGOs and prominent personalities to join the state government in reforming the education sector.