Ogun lawmakers lament bad roads as state govt claims lack of funds

Members of the Ogun State House of Assembly have decried the deplorable condition of roads in the state and have called on Governor Dapo Abiodun to do the needful.


However, the state government have claimed the slow pace of work on the bad roads is a result of paucity of funds.

On Thursday, members of the House Committee on Works and Infrastructure sought the need to strengthen the operations of the State Public Works Agency to enable it embark on massive road rehabilitation across the state.

The lawmakers, who were led by the Committee Chairman, Abayomi Fasuwa, bared their minds at an interactive session with the Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Ade Adesanya, the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Engr Yusuf Lateef and the General Manager, Ogun State Public Works Agency, Gbenga Akintola.


At the session held within the Assembly Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, Fasuwa, was flanked by his Deputy, Oludaisi Elemide and other members of the committee, including Yusuf Adejojo, Tinuke Bello, Damilola Soneye and Kunle Sobukanla.

Speaking, Fasuwa harped on the need to boost the independent operation of the State Public Works Agency, noting that it had become imperative for the ministry to equally improve on the supervision of all contractors handling the construction of road projects in all parts of the state to ensure the delivery of quality works.


The lawmakers, in their respective submissions, decried “the deplorable conditions of roads in the state, pointing out that some of the roads previously delivered by contractors had been subjected to damages within the projects’ general liability period.”

While requesting for palliative work on inner roads linking communities in towns across the state, the lawmakers counselled the Commissioner to “look inwards towards maximizing available funds to construct and where necessary, rehabilitate more roads.”

Responding, the State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Adesanya and General Manager, OGPWA, Gbenga Akintola attributed the slow pace of road projects to “paucity of funds.”


However, they assured that the contractors would commence operations immediately the rains subside.

They added that the Abiodun administration had continued to synergize with the federal government to fix some federal roads across the state.