Ogun Communities Decry Abandoned Projects, Ask For LCDA

MEMBERS of Odogbolu Local Council communities have appealed to the Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, to embark on rural developmental projects.

The council members also demanded for the creation of Iyemoji and Iyemojo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) respectively from the existing council with a view to touching lives at the grass-root, as the proposed LCDAs are potentially endowed with tourist attraction sites, which if developed, would improve the socio-economic development of the area for the benefits of the people in the community.

Joined in the plea to Amosun to see that members of Odogbolu Local Government communities enjoy the dividend of democracy, Mayegun Forum, an independent political pressure group with the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ogun State, did not only decry the sordid state of Odogbolu Local Council environs but also called on Amosun to address the plight of the people.

According to the convener of Mayegun Forum, Mr Mayegun Olayinka Oreyemi, an APC chieftain, it was discovered in the course of community development assessment programme carried out in the area that some projects have been abandoned, which include dualisation project of Ayepe-Agbowa road, repair of Eresa river bridge located between Ayepe and Odogbolu township.

Residents of Odoepo, Emurin, Imagbon, Idiru, Ijele, Imaweje, Imaka and other neighbouring communities also complained bitterly regarding what they perceived as government’s insensitivity towards their plight, and pleaded with the governor to ensure the moribund Odo-Epo Comprehensive High School is resuscitated according to the members of the communities’ priority. Mayegun Forum also called on Amosun to accede to the demands of the people for the sake of posterity.