Government to reconstruct Ado-Ekiti township roads

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has said his administration would soon begin the reconstruction of Ado-Ekiti township roads many of which have become deplorable as a result of lack of maintenance in the last four years.

The governor made this known during an inspection tour of some projects including the Adunni Olayinka Civic Centre, New Ado –Iyin road and World Bank-funded rehabilitation of Ureje waterworks treatment plant as well as the new water reservoirs and replacement of water pipeline from Ero dam to Ado Ekiti.

Fayemi was accompanied on the inspection by the Commissioner for Works and Transport, Mr Sola Adebayo, his Public Utilities and Infrastructure counterpart, Hon. Bamidele Faparusi, Special Adviser on Road Infrastructure and Transport, Hon Sunday Adunmo and the General Manager, Ekiti State Water Corporation, Engr Bisi Agbeyo, among others.

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Fayemi said the government has concluded plans to make the township roads motorable but was delayed by the rainfalls this year.

He added that most of the projects he initiated during his first term that was abandoned by his successor in office would be completed and commissioned next year.

“The first year was basically a year of rebuilding and restoration because there were things that were left and were hardly touched for four years that I left here. So we spent the last year reviewing the projects, rebuilding them and restoring all that was abandoned and completing projects that were also started by my predecessor but may be taken halfway because we don’t have a culture of abandonment.

“If you go to Oja Oba it is almost completed. We are also completing other things that were not completed, those we left and those we met, either they were community projects or state-wide projects.

“When I said this would be a year of construction and deliverables, I meant it and by the time we complete this year in October 2020, it would be a year of commissioning in large scale. We didn’t do much of commissioning in the first year in office. The Lagos Liaison office is completed now.

This Civic centre is about to be completed. All the plug and play facilities are now in place at the Ekiti Parapo Pavilion. The rains are off. The contractor is now back on Ado –Iyin road and we could see evidence of that with the crushing of rocks, clearing of the roads, fixing of the drains. It is a first-class job that they are doing there. We will restart work on Ado township roads now that the rains are gone,” Fayemi said.