You’re Wrong, Oyetola Didn’t Abandon Osogbo-Ikirun- Ila Odo  Road Project, Ex-Works Commissioner Tells Gov Adeleke

Engineer Remi Omowaiye, who served as   Commissioner for Works and Transport during the  Adegboyega Oyetola administration, has described as untrue the claim by Governor Ademola Adeleke that the immediate past administration had  abandoned the Osogbo –Ikirun- Ila Odo project  which links the state to its neigbour;  Kwara state .

In a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com , Omowaiye  said while the Rauf Aregbesola administration which awarded the contract did 10km of the road project, the Oyetola administration , he noted, did 10.5km and had indeed completed the project, saying ‘all what the current PDP government  has done  was to put the final layer of the asphalt’.

This, he added,  was about 30 percent of the entire project.

Omowaiye also noted that there was no way a 10km road of that nature could be done within a month, adding before Oyetola left office  in November last year, ‘the earthwork, the hydraulic, the stabilization had been done using bolder at various levels and the binder course’. 

‘It was the  former Governor Rauf Aregbesola administration  that awarded the dualisation of the Osogbo- Ikirun – Ila-Odo, Kwara State boundary road project. Before he left government, the Aregbesola administration did the dualisation of the 10km from old-garage in Osogbo to Osogbo steel rolling mill. And when Governor Adegboyega Oyetola came on board in November 2018, he took the dualisation from where Aregbesola stopped (i.e from Osogbo steel rolling mill that is chainage 10.0 to chainage 20.5 (10.5km). 

The Oyetola administration did it to binder course level. We also ensured that  sections of the road with unsuitable soil were stabilized with boulder (big stones). If you recollect,  former Governor Oyetola and my humble self visited the contruction site on several occasions and there are pictorial evidences that support our claim that while the project was going on, we were also going there for inspection and supervision. 

It is a blatant lie that we abandoned it. It is also a pure lie that it was Senator Ademola Adeleke that came to do it. How would he have completed the dualisation of a 10km of road within one month? 

What he did was just the wearing course which was the final layer of asphalt. We had done the earthwork, the hydraulic, we had done the stabilisation using bolder at various levels and we had done the binder course. We paid the contractor several times and the contractor cannot deny this as we have the evidence of payment. 

So, the only thing he (Adeleke) came to do was just to complete it which was about 30 percent of the total work. The Honourable Minister for Works (State) at a point, during the construction, came to inspect the work during our time’ the statement said- Team@orientactualmags.com
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