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    Glo to Reconstruct 64km Ota-Idiroko Road — Fashola

    The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has announced that the telecommunications service provider, Globacom, has offered to reconstruct the 64 km Ota-Idiroko road in 2022, under the Federal Government’s Tax Credit Scheme.

    The minister disclosed this on Wednesday during an inspection tour of the ongoing reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

    According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the minister said: “From Ota to Idiroko, we don’t have a contract there, but Chief Mike Adenuga of Globacom has offered to construct that road using the tax credit system.

    “So, that has also started, they are doing the design and hopefully, by sometime early next year, they should mobilize to site. The real reconstruction is going to happen if we have a deal with Glo,” Fashola said.

    He said that FERMA would carry out rehabilitation works on the Ota-Idiroko road between October and December.

    “But between now and December, FERMA has gone to take measurements there and they will move there from the end of September if the Ogun State Government does two things.

    “Clear all the squatters, traders and the settlers on the road and help us manage traffic and the governor as at last night has committed to doing that for us,” the minister said.

    He said efforts were on to bring in Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc and Unilever to reconstruct the Badagry link to the Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta road under the Tax Credit Scheme of the Federal Government.

    The minister said that the Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta road had become a problematic road due to years of neglect by previous administrations, as such the highway required a huge investment.

    He commended Gov. Dapo Abiodun for his passion in fixing roads in Ogun State, adding that the reconstruction of the failed portions of the Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta road would be completed by December at the cost of N13. 4 billion.

    The minister added that the project would be handled by the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA).

    He called on federal lawmakers representing Lagos and Ogun States to ensure increased budgetary allocation for the roads to ensure their speedy completion to ease the hardship on road users.

    “When people say Fashola is looking away, I am not looking away, I just can’t find the money,” he said.

    He also called for support of citizens for parliamentarians to ensure more borrowing for infrastructure upgrade because the future depends on development strides today.

    Also speaking during the inspection tour, Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun said that the project became necessary because Ogun is the industrial hub of the nation that needed good roads for interconnectivity to boost commerce.

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