Oyo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Dotun Oyelade, has said the Ibadan circular road will open the state for more businesses and opportunities.

Oyelade, in a statement, emphasised that the ongoing 110km road project had its bridges and interchanges on the South-West segment of the circular road completed with a projection of 100 per cent delivery in 24 months.

“The ongoing 110km circular road project has its bridges and interchanges on the South East Segment of the circular road completed with a projection of 100 per cent delivery in 24 months,” Oyelade said.

“The circular road will make Oyo State most accessible to all road networks in the Federation”, he said.

Oyelade said Governor Seyi Makinde had done more for the people of Oyo State than during his first tenure in office.

The Commissioner also said 335.19km of roads have been constructed since 2019, out of which 144.37km were constructed in the first four years and 190.82km were commissioned in just 17 months into the second term.

The Commissioner said that earlier this week, the Civil Service Commission announced the recruitment of 791 workers into the Mainstream.

He, however, recalled that 692 Education Officers, 60 Environmental Health Officers, 19 Lands Officers, 30 Lawyers had earlier been recruited into the Mainstream of the Oyo State Civil Service.

“If the 791 new recruits are added, the Seyi Makinde administration would have broken the employment record of the State by recruiting 1,592 into the Service, halfway into its second term,” he said.

Makinde had promised that his second term in office would witness more accelerated growth in all sectors than in his first term with people-friendly policies.

The governor at the retreat warned members of his cabinet that the people of Oyo state would neither take excuses nor stories from his administration.

He gave them a matching order to perform better than his first-term achievements.

The Commissioner said that before the end of this month, 7,000 Primary School Teachers out of the 46,000 that sat for the Computer Based Test, will receive their employment letters.

“The 7,000 new teachers being recruited is obviously more than the 5,000 Secondary School Teachers the Seyi Makinde administration employed in his first term,” he said.