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GOVERNOR SEYI MAKINDE'S REMARKS AT THE
OFFICIAL FLAG-OFF OF THE DUALISTION OF THE
AIRPORT ROAD/REHABILITATION OF ROADS
AROUND IWO ROAD INTERCHANGE
(DECEMBER 16, 2021)
Each time we are commissioning or agging off the
reconstruction of any road in Oyo state as we are
doing today, I always like to remind the good
people of Oyo state that this is another part of our
vision to engineer a modern Oyo state. As forwardthinking
people, they know the importance of road
construction to development, wherever a new road
construction goes – se mo oun to n ma tele
…development ni. We have seen this happen since we
completed the 65km Moniya – Ijaiye - Iseyin road, there
has been an increase of economic activities, farm
produce from Iseyin can easily be moved to Ibadan for
onward movement to another part of the state and even
outside the state.
As similarly, the dualization of this Ibadan airport road
will come with immense economic benets, especially
because we are not building this 3.2km road in isolation.
T h i s c o n t r a c t a l s o i n c l u d e s t h e
rehabilitation/reconstruction of the adjoining access
roads along the airport axis. In total, the work scope for
this project is about 10.8km as the project includes the
rehabilitation of spur roads around Iwo road
interchange to Adegbayi road and the road from
Oludare to Bishop Philips Academy. Let me use this
opportunity to address some of the issues our people
have raised about inner roads in Oyo state.
In the past weeks, you will have noticed that the Oyo state
Ministry of Works, Infrastructure and Transport has been
working with the Local Government authorities to see that
some of these roads are xed. Ti o ba ti de agbegbe ti
yin, eyin na e ma e ti binu o si n bo na. Ti won o ba ti ma x
inner roads to wa ni area yin, suru lo gba, eni suru - it will
get to you. What we are doing here is engineering a
modern Oyo state. E ripe baba wa Engineer ni won, emi
na Engineer ni mi, awon kan ni Architect lawon. Emo pe
Architect, won a kan se drawing ni, won a se model e de
le gbe si bi kan. Sugbon Engineer, a ma nko nkan te ba
sope ka ko engineer ma n ko nkan ni so a ma ko ona yi ba
se so ni.
We are building structures and systems that will lead to
sustainable developments in Oyo state. And so we are
working in such a way that whoever is coming behind will
not need to lay another foundation but will continue from
where we stopped. It took me several weeks to take this
decision, every time because the previous administration,
they awarded the expansion of the shoulder of this road
pelu iyen ti won se lati onipepeye was awarded for, that
portion of the contract – N200m. So I was asking myself,
should we just leave it like that but after about six weeks.
I'm sure distinguished Senator Agboola will remember
several times taba ti n lo si aiport a bere si debate: should
we spend this money now or should we just live with the
expansion of just the shoulders for just N200m but
eventually we decided to bite the bullet, ko n se bullet to
ma n pa yan o. We decided pe, there are few things ta n
se ni airport yi like we have seen airlines to je pe won o le
sun overnight ni ibadan tori pe won o ni means lati f'epo
sinu ballon won. So ati award contract lati se aviation fuel
storage and dispensing facility. So awon aircraft, now
they can sleep overnight. We have an airport ni bi yi to