• Oyo APC flays Makinde over N300b road project
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, yesterday, expressed worry over the increase in the spate of insecurity in the state, particularly kidnapping.
The opposition party said that the state government, under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had left security issues unattended to, adding that the abduction of the Edo State PDP Chairman, Tony Aziegbemi, in Benin City, the Edo state capital, further attest to the ravaging insecurity in the state.
In an interview with newsmen in Benin, State Publicity Secretary of APC, Peter Uwadiae, tasked the Obaseki-led government to tackle insecurity in the state.
Uwadiae urged the governor to match words with action in the area of providing security by supporting security agencies to address the scourge.
In the meantime, the Oyo State APC has queried the rationale behind redesigning the Ibadan Circular Road project by Governor Seyi Makinde’s government to occupy 425 metres setbacks on both sides, when the standard measure for any Trunk ‘A’ road does not exceed 60 metres across the globe.
The party, in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare, also decried the state government’s ongoing indiscriminate demolition of properties of helpless citizens, saying that the action was specifically aimed at serving the interest of the governor and his cronies.
The state opposition party further alleged monumental fraud in the cost of the project, which it discovered in the partial execution of the project.
The statement reads: “Many questions are begging for answers as far as this matter is concerned. How did Makinde spend N300 billion on less than a quarter of the whole project, when his predecessor, the late Abiola Ajimobi, had awarded the contract for its design, construction and completion? More so, Ajimobi paid compensation to those who might lose their property to construction activities at a total cost of N70 billion in June 2017, while the contractor had done about 20 per cent of the work before he was sent away when the incumbent government came on board in 2019.
