…Approve 35km Roads Grading in Each Council

The Forum of the Council Chairmen in Osun State, under the umbrella of Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), has commenced massive road grading and rehabilitation across the 30 Local Government Areas, Local Council Development Area, Area Councils and Administrative Offices in the state.

The initiative is aimed at raising the bar of the grassroots transportation system, easing communal mobility and enhancing social connectivity at every nook and cranny of the state.

Each of the Local Government Areas is expected to grade 35km as the ongoing exercise has reached an appreciable stage in many of the Councils in the state.

The Forum, in a statement signed by the ALGON Chairman, who doubled as Ifedayo Local Government Chairman, Hon. Idowu Samuel Abiodun, said the roads grading exercise will enhance and scale up rural-urban mobility for rapid socioeconomic growth and development.

According to the statement, the exercise is considered sacrosanct as it stands to bring a multiplier effect on the viability and potentiality of the grassroots economy across the nooks and crannies of the state.

The statement reads in parts: “We have begun massive roads grading and rehabilitation across the 30 Local Government Areas, including Local Council Development Areas, Area Councils and Administrative Offices in Osun State.

“This is in line with our resolve to bring grassroots development to the doorsteps of our people, expose our communities and rural centres to commercial and industrial opportunities through passable roads.

“The grading of 1,050km with 35km each in every Council is a well- thoughtout and decisive move to strengthen the transportation system at the grassroots, and it is our collective belief that the ongoing roads grading exercise will enhance safety, increase accessibility and advance socioeconomic activities in our rural and communities in the state.

“We firmly believe that the exercise will, in no measure, support our farmers in transporting farm produce to the markets, which in turn, will enhance the production capacity and as well ease the transportation system in the state.

“This is in fulfilment of our commitment to turn around the socioeconomic fortunes at the grassroots as we begin to unveil different people-focused and masses-driven developmental projects.”