Transportation

255 Oyo roads earmarked for rehabilitation, repairs – OYSROMA

By Web News 828

Oyo State Government has begun the Bill of Engineering Measurement and Evaluation, BEME, on not less than 255 roads across the state within the 33 local government areas for rehabilitation.

The Chairman, Oyo State Road Maintenance Agency, OYSROMA, Mr Busoye Soladoye stated this on Friday while on inspection of some of the roads earmarked for rehabilitation across the state.

He said that Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde has approved a sum of 750 million naira for the agency in order to ensure zero potholes on the roads across the state.

Mr Soladoye said the roads are grouped into three zones, namely: Ibadan, Oyo/Ogbomoso/ Iseyin and Ibarapa/Oke-Ogun zones.

He stated that the eleven local government areas in Ibadan have been covered, while the remaining two zones are still being worked on.

The OYSROMA chairman stressed that on the assumption of duty, he made an extensive inspection of roads across the state, to ensure that rehabilitation of deplorable roads commence speedily.

He urged the people of Oyo state to desist from dumping refuse on drainage which may block waterways and result in water spillover, causing the destruction of roads.

Some of the roads rehabilitated in Ibadan city include Dugbe to Mokola roads; Femi Johnson Junction along Oke-Ado road; Molete-Fire Station-Challenge Road; Adeoyo Hospital Junction, (Ring Road); ANCE Roundabout, Dugbe and Railway Frontage, Dugbe, Ibadan.

Oluwakayode Banjo

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Transportation

Road Rehabilitation: OYSROMA Pledges Cooperation with LGs, LCDAs

By Web News 863

Oyo State Road Maintenance Agency, OYSROMA has expressed its readiness to collaborate with Local Governments, LG and Local Council Development Authorities, LCDA, administrations in the state on road rehabilitation in order to foster accelerated execution of road repairs in the rural areas.

The Chairman of OYSROMA, Mr. Kamil Akinlabi made this known during tour of the zonal operational offices at Ibarapa, Oke-Ogun, Oyo and Ogbomoso zones.

Mr. Akinlabi said the cooperation and support of the local government areas and Local Council Development Authorities, as well as the local communities, could not be underestimated in the planning and execution of road rehabilitation programmes.

The chairman added that the state government would procure necessary equipment to facilitate road rehabilitation in all the zones, noting that personnel would be deployed to all the zones for ease of operation.

The OYSROMA boss, therefore, called on all the caretaker chairmen, community leaders and the people in all the zones to see road facilities as theirs, stressing that their cooperation and support would go a long way in making the operations of the agency a hitch-free one.

Iyabo Adebisi