Elerinjare community in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State has cried out to the state government to help intervene on the deplorable state of the 3.7 kilometre Idofian-Elerinjare road.
Making the appeal on behalf of his people, the Olushabi of Elerinjare Iboboland, Oba Tajudeen Olanrewaju Bello, said that the people have had harrowing experience due to bad state of the road.
A statement by the publicity secretary of the Elerinjare Ibobo Descendants Union (EIDU), Abdulhakeem Garba, said that the road had never been constructed by any government.
The statement further said that the road was first awarded for construction during the first term of Governor Bukola Saraki in 2003, as well as during second term of the immediate past Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, without its construction seeing the light of the day.
“It is always a challenge yearly for indigenes who travelled far and near to access the agrarian community as rain usually flooded the way leading to the area, thereby forcing indigenes to park their vehicles on roadside for days without gaining access to the community, while others would will rather turn back,” the statement said.
The statement said that the Idofian-Elerinjare road, when constructed, will benefit other adjoining agrarian communities such as Oko-Okuta and Okoya and it will reduce man-hour spent on the road.
The community also said that the Idofian-Elerinjare road leads to Ojoku in Oyun Local Government Area of the state as well as Offa, Offa Local Government Area.
Oba Bello, who said that communal efforts had sustained the road from total collapse, added that each household is levied on a yearly basis, especially during rainy season to maintain the road.
The monarch said that it was collective efforts of community members that brought about construction of primary and secondary schools, adding that projects such as electricity, hand pump boreholes were also realised by taxing each household since 1984.
The community members who appealed to Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq to urgently intervene on the cries of the people, said that they are staunch members of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“Despite being staunch members of the ruling APC in the state, we lament that dividends of democracy is yet to reach the community. We are, therefore, appealing to our able governor to consider our plight.”
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