ABANDONED BRIDGES ALL OVER OGUN STATE

ABANDONED BRIDGES ALL OVER OGUN STATE

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU,ABEOKUTA

GOVERNOR IBIKUNLE  AMOSUN IN ALL FAIRNESS HAS NOBLE INTENTIONS FOR HIS PEOPLE BUT DELAYS HAS MEANT SEVERE CRITICISMS 

Some say the spirit of Lisabi,the ancient warrior and highly revered progenitor of the ancient town of Abeokuta is angry with the people and needs to be appeased .

Observers say that they were fortunate to have ruled Nigeria at least three times with a likely fourth time denied via the Late Chief Moshood Abiola

However one thing that nobody needed to tell this reporter but which he saw on the faces of residents when he visited the ancient town recently  was that of a people filled with expectations of some kind of divine intervention from the claws of poverty

In an hour 30 minutes of facility tour of abandoned projects  most of whom were bridges and even roads in the state,The News office Desk of Paedia Express Multimedia Group in Lagos,Nigeria ,observed that though the aims and objectives of the projects were laudable but whether this was what the people actually needed at this time was highly debatable considering the low level or volumes of vehicles in Abeokuta ,Ogun state capital.

It is very doubtful if proper due diligence were conducted before most of the projects were embarked upon by the state government as lots of White elephants litter the state  as  at press time.

A  Source revealed that the whole of Abeokuta will just pass for a district in Ibadan ,Oyo state  of Nigeria and wondered why they were given projects that did not impact on them directly..

The source who spoke to this reporter said that the tale behind a lot of abandoned bridges in the state was very worrisome.

According to him within Abeokuta alone he was aware of several bridges still under construction around the secretariat area,Pansheke,Shapon ,Iyana Mortuary aside from Ijebu Igbo town in Ogun State.

He revealed that not less than a sum of N11Billion was used to award the contract for one of the t bridges in Ijebu Igbo township in the state.

The source accused the regime of Senator Ibikunle Amosun of deliberately embarking on projects he knew was going to be counter- productive due to an agenda though analysts think  that the politician can have his own defense.

A\ peep at  other gigantic ideas like the much hyped Makun City and the mammoth Muhammadu Buhari Estate suggests things are still early days as no one seems to have started any form of serious construction at the respective sites.

A lot of houses were readily observed to have being destroyed within the Iberekodo where another uncompleted but abandoned bridge was spotted by this reporter ,with analysts suggesting that the demolition exercise was due to  the road and bridge constructions  but it was not immediately known by this reporter if the owners were compensated in line with the real worth of what they lost in the demolition schemes.

This reporter had also being to other parts of the state like Mowe ,Oke Aro in the past with not much gap.

The latest as at the time of filing this report is that sources say a lot of work were on-going in some other parts of the state but with sources wondering whether the Governor may not have beaten more than he can chew as they wondered why there were suddenly several bridges all over the place with no direct correlation on the livelihood of the common man on the street as the level of traffic in the state was very low especially in Abeokuta.

A source however added that some of the bridges had being completed but they needed maintenance but what this  reporter saw physically was  a shade different.