Self help efforts: Aiyetoro-Budo, Itele residents spend over 50 million on road rehabilitation.

Self help efforts: Aiyetoro-Budo, Itele  residents spend over 50 million on road rehabilitation.

Residents of Aiyetoro-Budo and  Itele communities in Ado-Odo/ Ota local government area of Ogun state have  spent over 50  million naira for the rehabilitation of the abandoned road project between the Aiyetoro-Budo bridge and Mopol junction which has continue to  cause death trap to the people of the communities.

Our investigations  indicate that the portion of the  bad  road, just 450 metres from the bridge to Aiyetoro-Budo police station which has remained unpassable for over a decade is yet to be attended to by successive governments in the state. 

According to a resident in the community, Mr Abbas Jimoh who  explained that sometimes ago, Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, representing Ogun west senatorial district at  the upper chamber in Abuja  intervened by constructing the drainage  in order to resolve the issue of overflowing of water during rainy season in the area but was later abandoned by the senator.

Mr Jimoh stressed further that during the raining season, all the water flow from Itele and Lafenwa communities will converge at Aiyetoro-Budo junction thereby causing serious pool of water as a result of the blocked drainage  due to the abandonment of the road by the government. 

He disclosed that the situation was getting worse on daily basis because of the bad road. 

Narrating the self help efforts  arrangement of the communities to ensure free flow of traffic and movement of people, another resident, Alhaja Mariam Atobatele said that the residents decided to embark on the self help efforts  of the portion of the  bad road since January this year  before the beginning of another raining season to forestall another gory incidents when the raining season starts

Alhaja Atobatele stressed that the self help efforts from the communities began with the repairing and clearing of the drainage with scavators, casting of the drainage, filling of the road with over 300 loads of red sand among others which has caused the residents of the communities over 50 million naira. 

According to another resident who pleaded anonimity said that the communities have written many letters to the state government as well as the local government which is closer to the people for intervention but all efforts are to no avail, begging the government to come to the aid of the communities with the total reconstruction of the road from Aiyetoro-Budo bridge that serves as boundary between Lagos and Ogun states inward Aiyetoro, Lafenwa and Itele communities. 

Mrs Idowu Kalejaiye in her own plea with the government said that the ongoing self help efforts of the residents is just a palliative measure,  saying that although government cannot do it alone but stressed that the state government must as a matter of urgency complement the self help efforts of Aiyetoro-Budo and Itele residents by ensuring total reconstruction of the road. 

Mrs Kalejaiye pointed out that government should be able to tap on the mineral resources  of the area by ensuring that the bad roads are attended to on time so as to enhance free flow of both vehicular and human movement in the area.