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As you drive in from the Oyo end of this road, you will
see the amount of work that Messrs Kopek
Construction Ltd have already done on this road. I'm
sure the good people of Oyo are already seeing the benets
of this road construction. And when it is completed, it will
become a vital link between the farming communities of
Oke-Ogun and Oyo, providing the much-needed market
linkage between these zones.
Well, this is the ofcial ag-off of the construction, but the
contractors have been on-site for ve months. You can now
do the maths to see if they are on course to complete their
work within the scheduled one year. They have assured us
that this will happen.
Permit me at this point to once again welcome my brother,
His Excellency Douye Diri, the Executive Governor of
Bayelsa State and thank him for honouring us with his
presence to ag off this road construction ofcially.
As I mentioned, Messrs Kopek Construction is handling this
contract. The total contract sum which was originally eight
point four billion Naira (N8.4 billion) was increased to nine
point nine billion Naira (N9.9 billion) last month.
As you may be aware, this is a federal road being reconstructed by the
Oyo State Government. So, after consultation with the Federal
Government, we were given specications to comply with.