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Osun Assembly advocates resuscitation of N20bn abandoned FG projects


Osun State House of Assembly is taken steps to ensure that abandoned projects of the Federal Government are resuscitated and ongoing ones are fast tracked to completion for economic buoyancy of the state.

This move began on Monday when one of the members, Honourable Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, representing Obokun State Constituency, raised the issue at the plenary and catalogued with facts and figures the status of Federal Governments in the state, calling on the parliament to take action on the condition of federal abandoned and ongoing projects in the state.

Oyintiloye who is also the Chairman House Committee on Information and Strategy said, sub-spended Federal Government projects in the state, summed up to about N20.318 billion.

These projects, according to him, include road infrastructure, water schemes, and housing, stating that some of the projects have been awarded as far back as 2008 and have either been abandoned or slowed down owing to non-disbursement of fund by the federal government.

In all the abandoned projects, Oyintiloye hinted that road infrastructure cost N16.519 billion, housing costs N2.955 billion and water scheme cost N844.342 million among others.

Some of the abandoned federal projects, according to him, were, dualisation of Mayfair- Lagere-Iremo-Enuwa- Ilesha bye-pass in Ile-Ife (22 km) awarded in December 2010 and reconstruction/ rehabilitation of Gbongan-Iwo-Oyo S/B road, awarded in September 2011.

Others projects, he said, were, the rehabilitation of Osogbo-Ilesha road (27 km) costing N2.882 billion awarded in December 2010, rehabilitation of Oyan township water pipeline, and rehabilitation of Iwo township water supply scheme among others.

Noting that the projects have socio-economic importance to the state, he said, if the government resume work on them, it would enhance job creation, attract investors to the state, make clean water accessible to the citizenry and boost the internal revenue of the state.

Commending the federal government for paying attention to some of its projects, especially the federal secretariat, he charged the parliament to call the attention of the federal government to the abandoned projects and ensure their completion on time.

Oyintiloye added that the step became imperative in view of the need for the state to take full advantage of the networking and might with the Federal Government.

The Speaker, Honourable Najeem Salaam according to the release commended the lawmaker and the entire Assembly for taking interest in projects and programmes that would have positive impacts on the people.

Hon. Najeem stated that the appropriate federal government agencies should be summoned to give a clearer picture into the issue.

This exercise, he said, would enable the house to know the reason behind the abandonment of the affected projects and determine the appropriate steps to be taken.

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