Ogun State House of Assembly has tasked the State Project,Monitoring Committee of the Rural Access and Agriculture Marketing Project (RAAMP) on the need to ensure even spread of rural road construction and durable road projects that will further aid rural development.
Speaker of the House, Mr Olakunle Oluomo, stated this at the Assembly complex, Oke Mosan,during an engagement with the RAAMP Committee, led by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, Mr Adetunji Kanimodo.
The Speaker assured the Committee of all necessary legislative support at enhancing the productive capacity, rapid development of rural areas across the State and the improvement of the living standards of the grassroot people.
Describing the proposed programmes of the Committee as being novel and progressive, Mr Oluomo noted that the bane of the nation’s progress remained the absence of a legal framework for carrying out effective maintenance culture on infrastructural projects, including road networks.
Earlier in his presentation, the Team leader, Mr Kanimodo said the Committee’s engagement with the lawmakers was to intimate them of the lofty programmes of RAAMP, which was to develop selected rural roads and markets across the three Senatorial districts for improved socio-economic prosperity of local farmers.
Also, the Lead Infrastructure Engineer, Mr Abdulazeez Buka-Gana added that nine rural markets had been identified at the preparatory stage of the project for the provision of access roads, sanitary facilities and water storage facilities owing to the State’s comparative advantage in three value chain crops including rice, cassava and maize.
Oluwatoyin Adegoke
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