Hundreds of residents of Atan-Agbara/ Igbesa areas of Ado/Odo-Ota
Local government areas of Ogun State on Tuesday took to the street to
protest against the deplorable condition of their roads and neglect of
the state and federal governments.
The Protesters who were full with anger accused accused Governor
Ibikunle Amosun led APC government in the State of deceit and inhumane
to the plight of the masses.
The residents who in their hundred staged a warning protest on the
deplorable condition of roads in the axis on Tuesday also accused the
State government of "deliberately inflicting" havoc on them by
abandoning the ongoing road construction in the area.
The visibly angry protesters stormed the Lusada junction of Agbara
road with placards inscriptions such, "Let Our Tax Deduction Count,
give us good roads", "Osinbajo Save Agbara/Igbesa/Lusada", "Bad road
is aiding insecurity of our communities", "No good roads, no massive
votes in 2019".
The protesters claimed to have been suffering on the road for almost
16 years, but commended the PDP led government of providing palliative
through the state road maintenance agency, OGROMA.
Addressing the protesters, Otunba -Amona of Igbesaland, Otunba
Adewunmi Durojaiye accused both state and federal governments of being
insensitive to the plight of the road users despite generating about
85% of its Internally Generated Revenue from the zone.
Otunba Durojaiye alleged the state government of relocating the
industries in the area to Sagamu as a result of the bad condition of
the roads.
He said government cannot relocate the industries after abandoning the
roads make huge tax from the zone.
According to him, "This is a warning protest and we are here because
of the deplorable condition of the roads. The state government is
trying to relocate all the companies to somewhere in Sagamu. This is
15kilometre roads to Atan that the government cannot do. This
government is deceitful. They came here in 2015 with caterpillars when
the election is coming with a promise to construct the roads if
re-elected, but as soon as they get our votes, they abandoned the
project.
"There is no good roads here, where they get the large junk of their
revenue and they are constructing 10-lanes from Abeokuta to Sagamu,
how do you explain that, it is unthinkable and unacceptable.
Therefore, our clarion call to government is to fix our roads."
While addressing journalists, the Youths President, Comrade Jide Aina
however threatened total shutdown of the roads if the government fails
to begin construction in the next one month.
Aina maintained that, the protest is a final warning to the state
government, calling on the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr.
Babatunde Fashola and the state government to fix the road for economy
growth of the state.
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