Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has said that about 1000 workers have so far benefited from the state government’s N1bn housing loan scheme.
He stated this at the flagging off a 5.9 hectares housing project, Ajumose GRA and 14.6km road projects on Tuesday.
Ajimobi who flagged off the expansion of 3.2 km Oke-Adu-Agodi Gate-Idi-Ape-Iso Road interchange and the dualisation of 11.4 km Agodi Gate-Alakia Adebayi Junction with spur to Alakia- Ibadan Airport Road said that good road networks would encourage trade and commercial activities, easy flow of traffic and movement of the people.
He said that the 5.5 hectares of land at the Ajumose GRA will be sold to the people at an affordable price.
Ajimobi said that his administration had earlier at the beginning of his regime entrenched a peaceful atmosphere.
He added that housing infrastructures were pertinent, adding “the people of this state deserve humble shelter and good road networks. We are not constructing as well as expanding roads but we take road networks into cognizance.
“Infrastructure is the bedrock of development and in the list of infrastructural development is good road network that will encourage free flow of commerce, trade and movement of the people. With this in mind, we decided at the inception of our administration to have adequate infrastructure. We accomplished a peaceful environment and believed that the next level was to provide complementing infrastructural development.
“By the time we will be leaving in 2019, we would have earned the name the builder of a modern Oyo State. If nothing else, we would also be remembered as a welfarist government who takes care and touches the lives of the people of the state in the areas of health, education, social and physical infrastructure, agriculture, investment and industrialization amongst others”, Governor Ajimobi explained.
He appreciated the support of traditional rulers, community leaders, motorists and those affected by the road reconstruction and expansion, pledging that those that have valid documents would be promptly and adequately compensated.
Commissioner for Works and Transport, Mr. Wasiu Dauda said that the roads’ projects were products of long term and careful planning, design and consultations, stressing that the projects were conceived to reduce to the barest minimum traffic congestions and travel time within the state.
His Lands and Housing counterpart, Ajiboye Omodewu stated that over 1000 civil servants had benefitted from the housing loans scheme, noting that about N1bn had already been disbursed to the beneficiaries of the housing loan scheme.
Omodewu said that the land grabbing law was already yielding positive results, explaining that the ministry had tackled 25 cases and that 20 out of the cases had been resolved amicably.
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