Ogun State Government has commenced work on the Sango-Ota-Ijoko road.
 
The reconstruction work will move towards Akute on the border with Lagos in the coming weeks.
  
Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Tokunbo Talabi, who disclosed this to newsmen in Abeokuta, yesterday, said the palliative work would be completed in two weeks.
 
He added that both governments in the past, had looked at some issues together and taken turns to find solutions.
 
He said: “What is happening is that the road is already contracted out and so it makes it difficult to go into a contracted road.

“On the source of funding, in recent times, the governor had personally delivered financial options to the Minister of Works, but they said not, that it was not going to work. We made another, they said it was not going to work and we did the third. We have moved around all the agencies that can support those options and they are in line.
 
“What I want us to know is that people find it difficult to differentiate between state and federal government roads. On that Sango-Ota-Ijoko road, there were options to use tax credit to fund the reconstruction and we found somebody with a tax credit suitable enough to fund the road. And if there is a gap, we are prepared to fill those gaps and that has been communicated to the various ministries involved. Discussions are going on between the governor and the minister and I am sure they are working towards resolving the issues.
 
“One thing is certain, our people are suffering. You cannot delay that suffering and we are trying to ensure that bureaucracy does not stop the progress of enjoying the benefits of that road because it is a major artery of the state. “Nobody will go to that road a number of times, where people are complaining, without having sympathy for those who use the road. So, it is understandable and we know that the governor will meet his own commitment by starting palliative work on that road.”
  
While assuring that the state government would do its bit to ensure that the road is motorable, Talabi attributed the poor condition of the road to more than 15 years of neglect, assuring that there would be a major improvement in the next two weeks.
   
Earlier, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Abdulwaheed Odusile, said  the state government has awarded contracts for the construction of some roads across the three Senatorial districts.
   
Some of these roads according to Odusile include Ilaro-Owode road, Sagamu-Ikenne road, Siun-Owode road and Sagamu Round About- Iperu road.
 
He stated further that the state government also approved the filling of vacant stools of some traditional rulers and change of names of some.