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Very soon, in fact, in the next two months, we will be counting three
years in ofce. And we will be presenting our scorecard. The
good thing is that our scorecard is not hidden. In road
construction alone, we have over 550 kilometres of roads, both
completed and ongoing.
We have successfully laid the proper foundation for
engineering a modern Oyo State.
As we have said repeatedly, we believe that anywhere that roads go,
development follows. And so, when we promised that we would
move the good people of Oyo State from poverty to prosperity, we
knew that a lot of our plans would be hinged on creating a viable
road network through rehabilitations, reconstructions and
constructions.
So far, we have done a lot of work around the Oke-Ogun-Oyo-
Ibadan axis. And we are seeing how much development this has
brought in less than three years. Development means that more
businesses are seeing Oyo State open up, and they are coming
to site their companies here.
When these companies come here, they pay taxes. And so, we
have been able to raise our Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) by a
record N15 billion in 2 years.
And when these monies come into our purse, we plough it
back into development. So when they ask, “Nibo ni Seyi
n'rowo?” You can tell them: “owo development ni o”. Because
we are reinvesting these monies into the economy.
More recently, we are expanding the road network and linking Oke-
Ogun to Ogbomoso through the Iseyin-Fapote-Ogbomoso Road.