Ekiti completes10 road projects, awaits 10 others

Ekiti State government has completed 10 road projects covering a length of 88.6kilometres at a cost of N5, 506,027,138.70.
At the inception of Governor kayoed Fayemi-led administration, a total of 33 roads contracts covering 426.061kilometres were awarded, the State Commissioner for Works and Transportation, Mr. Sola Adebayo said.
He spoke in Ado Ekiti at the monthly Ministerial Press briefing/stakeholders forum organized by the state Ministry of Information and Civic Orientation.
Mr. Adebayo assured that at least 10 more road projects would be completed and added to the evolving network of roads in the state before October this year when the administration will mark its third
year in office.
The Commissioner noted that the road projects cut across the state, stressing that the target of the state government is to make all communities in the state accessible by major roads by 2014.
He also assured that the present administration would not abandon any inherited project, adding that the administration has completed 122.91km of inherited road contracts while 136.744km are on-going.
According to him, 151.095km road projects initiated by the Fayemi led administration has been completed while 200.266km are on-going, adding that work would soon commence on the 77.7km roads that were recently awarded by the state government.
The Commissioner who pledged his commitment to objective of the Fayemi led administration to develop Ekiti to a model state using the 8-point agenda; assured that he would commit all human and material resources at achieve government lofty goals.
Highlighting some of the initiatives of his Ministry apart from road construction, reconstruction and rehabilitation, Adebayo said that all the verges of the state roads are cleared periodically to improve visibility of road users adding that traffic lights were
also installed at five junctions in the state capital to ease traffic flow .He added that his Ministry also did some external electrification projects including the Fajuyi Government Housing Estate on Ado Ilawe road, General Hospital, Ado Ekiti and the Phase V of the State Secretariat Complex among others.
Other achievements of the Ministry according to the Commissioner include the standardization of the colour of commercial vehicle in the state to lemon green, procurement of 100 Suzuki Alto cars and 40 Urvan buses worth N653m which were distributed to the three transport unions in the state to ease transport problems.
The Commissioner however appealed to all stakeholders to promptly pay their taxes in order to enable government fulfills its aim of making life more meaningful for the people, stressing that failure to pay tax would reduce the fund available to government to execute its programmes.
He also appealed to the beneficiaries of the vehicles distributed on loans through the drivers’ unions to ease transportation problems to fulfill their obligations stressing that the payment of the outstanding loans would boost the possibility of letting more people
benefit from the scheme.
Earlier in his welcome address, the Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mr. Tayo Ekundayo had explained that the forum was one of the platforms used by his Ministry to promote accountability, transparency and stewardship in Governance as enshrined in the 8-point agenda of the Fayemi led administration.
Mr Ekundayo said that the focus of the forum was not only to publicize government activities, stressing that it was also to generate feedback from the people in line with the policy of the present administration in the state of enhancing participatory
governance.