Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State on Monday inaugurated 21 roads in Osogbo that were reconstructed at the cost of N4.09 billion.
At the ceremony at Oriki Housing Estate Road, the governor said the roads were reconstructed to reduce the traffic problems in the city as well as attract foreign investors to the state.
Aregbesola said that the state government had reconstructed 26.2 kilometres of roads in the town in the last one year.
He also said that 294.2 kilometres of roads had been reconstructed in all the local government areas of the state.
According to him, the government will not relent in its efforts to develop infrastructure in the state to promote social economic development.
Earlier in a speech, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Works, Sabitu Amuda, said road reconstruction by the government had brought socio economic development to the state.
Amuda said the state government was also embarking on construction of dual carriageways as well as overhead bridges across the state.
The roads inaugurated by the governor included Aregbe Junction, Odi Olowo Road and First Bank Road.
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