The road projects included the rehabilitation/asphalt overlay of Ilesha Expressway junction – Oyemekun/Adesida – Fiwasaye junction and the dualisation of Mobil Junction – Oba Ile – Airport Junction in Akure.
Others are the dualisation of Itanla junction –Ademulegun Roundabout – Surulere – Yaba – Akure Garage within the Ondo township.
Mimiko on the occasion presented a 30 per cent mobilisation fee of N2.3bn to the contractors that would handle the road projects.
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Governor Mimiko's Ondo state goverment is splashing the cash - to use that popular football phrase, already.
There goes the roads, in Akure - the state capital, and Ondo town, to be fixed with nearly 9Billion Naira as reported in full here
The governor...
... urged the contractors to ensure a timely completion of the projects which he said would be inaugurated in the next 24 months.rnor urged the contractors to ensure a timely completion of the projects which he said would be inaugurated in the next 24 months.
I am not so sure whether this is shoddy reporting, or it is a case of a governor spending some whooping =N=9 Billion without having any specific idea,
perhaps not properly communicating, exactly when the roads are finished ? Either way, worrying that, is the least you could say.
Still, that these roads are critical to the ease or otherwise of people's lives needs no stating.
What is disappointing, is the inability of the government over the last 10 years or so to evolve a deeper, well thought out, and well founded plan -
one that ensures new roads are constructed, while keeping existing ones permanently maintained.
It is the reason why the award of these multiBillion Naira contracts takes headlines in our climes. This should not be news. Ideally.
In the meantime, there is no talk of the bitumen desposits in the state anymore lately. you wonder why...
