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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.