The African Democratic Congress in Ogun State has berated Governor Ibikunle Amosun for abandoning several infrastructural projects across the state.
The state Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Abiola Odutola, in a statement, called on residents and indigenes to rise and save Ogun from further socio-economic damage.
He said littering the state with abandoned projects was a clear signal that there “is a problem with policy direction.”
According to him, events in the last seven years are pointers to the state’s need to be rescued from the era of wasting resources on the construction of several bridges that would not add any economic value to the state and the people.
Odutola said, “The ADC remains resolute in its defence of the common people of Ogun State. We have perfected plans to ensure that we finish whatever we start and stand by the commitment of the ADC to the war against poverty.”
According to the party, abandoned projects have made life more difficult for residents and investors in the state as they spend more on transportation of goods and maintenance of their vehicles, especially during the raining season.
The statement listed some of the abandoned projects as roads and bridges at Akute, Magboro, Agbado Junction, Ijoko, Sango and Lambe.
Odutola said, “Residents are currently bearing the brunt of the state of the projects as the cost incurred on car maintenance and transport fares in the areas have gone up by over 200 per cent in the past years.
“Whenever it rains, some residents have to rely on some men, who would carry them on their backs like babies. It is appalling that after more than six years, this administration has not completed projects it promised to finish in two years.
“Initially, it blamed the delay on the recession which it claimed was caused by the Peoples Democratic Party but one should ask the governor how come the recession didn’t affect the commencement and completion of the bridges he constructed across Abeokuta within the same time.”
According to the ADC spokesman, a project that was supposed to be completed in 2013 at N100bn, with the exchange rate at N150/$1, would be completed at three or more times the cost in 2019, at N450 and N500/$1.
“There is secrecy in the preparation, enactment, and implementation of the budget in the state, as well as a pervasive lack of transparency, conspired to keep citizens in the dark as to what their government owes them.
“Ogun residents must therefore rise and save the state from the ruling party, which claims to open the state for business while inflicting poverty on the people that elected it to power. I urge them to join hands with ADC and wage war against poverty in our dear state,” he added.
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