_{By Omolara Adasofunjo}

The Ogun State House of Assembly has called on the State Ministry of Environment to begin immediate enforcement of the laws against those displaying items for sale on road facilities, thereby causing gridlock in the State.

The lawmakers made at a session with the Management of the State Ministry of Environment led by the Commissioner, Mr. Ola Oresanya to analyze the 2025 budget proposals of the Ministry before members of the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation, chaired by Mr Lamidi Musefiu. 

Mr Musefiu, alongside his colleague in the House Committee on Environment, Mr Samsideen Lawal and other lawmakers particularly requested that street traders that encroached the road under the Kuto flyover bridge and other parts of the State needed to be warded off to allow the free flow of traffic and prevent avoidable road accidents.

They also commended the Ministry for its efforts at dredging waterways across the State which had helped in reducing flash floods in some parts of the  State.

Earlier in his presentation, the State Commissioner for Environment had proposed a total budget expenditure of  3.6 billion naira for the next fiscal year, out of which 2.9 billion would go for capital expenditure, while 754 million naira would take care of recurrent expenditure.

Other agencies that defended their budget proposals before the Assembly included the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the State  Ministry of Transportation, the State  Teaching Service Commission and the State Waste Management Authority. 

The management of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, D. S. ICT Polytechnic, Itori, Abraham Adesanya ICT Polytechnic, Ijebu- Igbo, Gateway ICT Polytechnic, Saapade and Sikiru Adetona College of Science and Technology, Omu- Ijebu were also at the House of Assembly Complex to defend their budget proposals.

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