Oyo completes 368.9 km of roads in two years – Mankide’s aide

Oyo State Government has completed and delivered 368.9 kilometres of roads in the last two years of Omituntun 2.0.

Abdulmojeed Olawale Mogbonjubola, Oyo State Commissioner for Public Works, Infrastructure and Transport, who stated this at the Omituntun 2.0 Inter-Ministerial Press Briefing held at the Governor’s Office, saying the present administration is building on what it laid.

While saying that the administration of Governor ‘Seyi Makinde had transformed the State into a new economic hub in the South-West, he said that of all the ongoing road projects in the State, the 110 kilometres Ibadan Circular Road, named after former Governor Rasidi Ladoja, stands out as the star project, noting that the 32km first phase of the project known as the South-East Wing, running from the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to Badeku Village on Ibadan-Ile Ife Expressway, would be delivered before the end of the year.

He said: “One of the greatest road construction projects in the State at the moment is the Ibadan Circular Road Project. We have that assurance that by the time we have the Circular Road in place, the traffic that normally builds up around the Iwo Road Interchange and some other economic hubs of the metropolis would have been eliminated.

“What the Circular Road is doing for us is that it will be a one-stop shop for economic development. It is going to be the first motorway in Nigeria and it will have a corridor. At the corridor, we will have world class estates, both residential and industrial.

“It has an entire span of 110 kilometres with four segments. The first segment is the South-East segment spanning from Abiola Ajimobi Technical University to Badeku Village on Ibadan-Ile Ife Expressway. At the moment, the state government is doing the asphalt pavement of that segment. We have achieved like 70 per cent completion of that South-East Wing. The work on that segment is being carried out by two contractors. Messrs Craneburg Construction Ltd is working on Lot 1, while Messrs Kopek is working on the second lot of that segment.

“By the end of this year, the first 32 kilometres of the entire 110km will be commissioned, because at the moment, we have achieved 70% of progress on the 32 kilometres first segment.”

Speaking on the sustainability of the Circular Road project, Mogbonjubola added, “the Ibadan Circular Road is a world-class project. We should not be doing any major maintenance on the project in the next 20 years. But the major path to that sustainability is that the project will be tolled.

“At the Tech-U entrance, we would put a weighbridge and a tolling pad. The maintenance will be concessioned. The governor has said that it is the first motorway in Nigeria. There will be about three to four entrances and they will be tolled.”