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Oyo State Compendium of Infrastructure Delivery Projects 2019 - 2023 Accomplished by the executive Governor Engr, Seyi Makinde, FNSE, D.Sc Vol 1 Compiled by Engr Seyi Adeleye, MNSE Oyo State Compendium of Infrastructure Delivery Projects 2019 - 2023
Accomplished by the executive Governor Engr, Seyi Makinde, FNSE, D.Sc
Vol 1 Compiled by Engr Seyi Adeleye, MNSE

07.03.2023 Views

His Excellency Engr. OluSeyi Abiodun Makinde D.Sc, FNSE the Executive Governor of Oyo State at the Commissioning of the 65km Moniya-Ijaiye-Iseyin Road on Thursday, June 3, 2021. We are here today to commission one of the projects which will play a major role in our engineering a modern Oyo State – an Oyo State where the prosperity of the people through economic integration serves as the fulcrum of our decisions. But rst, let me once more, appreciate my brother Governor, Samuel Ortom of Benue State for travelling down to be with us on this happy occasion. I want to use this opportunity to convey the deepest sympathies of myself, my family and the good people of Oyo State to you over the death of your Senior Special Assistant on Security, Christopher Dega. May God grant you and his friends and family the strength to bear the loss.

I am sure I speak for myself, the people of Iseyin in particular and the good people of Oyo State when I say, we are delighted that you could be here today at the commissioning of the 65km Moniya-Ijaiye-Iseyin Road. This road remained in a deplorable state for several years. I remember that immediately after I became governor, I began to receive SOS messages regarding this road. I remember this particular request on social media from someone who said some parents have had to withdraw their children from school because of their inability to navigate this road to get to school. The state of this road also kept people away from going from Moniya to Iseyin. On a good day, they would spend three hours out here. You can then imagine what it would be like on a bad day when perhaps, a truck has broken down at one of the terrible spots. Although a contract for rehabilitation of this road was awarded by the previous administration, our initial inspection visits in 2019 revealed that the contractors had not even done 5% of the work here before abandoning it. We therefore had to revoke and re-award the contract. I always say that whatever decisions we make at any point in this administration will be based on science, data and logic. So, we factored in that we wanted this road to be top grade and last at least 10 years before any rehabilitations. For this reason, we decided to increase the stubbing course from about 150mm to about 200mm, and we also changed the asphaltic wearing course from 40mm to 50mm.

His Excellency Engr. OluSeyi<br />

Abiodun Makinde D.Sc, FNSE<br />

the Executive Governor of Oyo State<br />

at the Commissioning of the 65km<br />

Moniya-Ijaiye-Iseyin Road<br />

on Thursday, June 3, 2021.<br />

We are here today to commission one of<br />

the projects which will play a major role<br />

in our engineering a modern Oyo State<br />

– an Oyo State where the prosperity of the people<br />

through economic integration serves as the fulcrum<br />

of our decisions.<br />

But rst, let me once more, appreciate my brother<br />

Governor, Samuel Ortom of Benue State for<br />

travelling down to be with us on this happy<br />

occasion. I want to use this opportunity to convey<br />

the deepest sympathies of myself, my family and the<br />

good people of Oyo State to you over the death of<br />

your Senior Special Assistant on Security,<br />

Christopher Dega. May God grant you and his<br />

friends and family the strength to bear the loss.

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