LGAs ecological projects: Commissioner lauds Ilorin East, West
The Kwara State Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Community Development, Hon. Abdullahi Abubakar Bata, at a separate inspection tour of the ecological projects executed in Ilorin West and Ilorin Local Governments Areas of the State, commended the duo for their choices of people-centred ecological projects with phenomenal positive impacts on their communities.
The Commissioner, while speaking at the ongoing multimillion naira construction of drainage with double culverts at Oke-Kudu, Gbagba Area in Ilorin West, expressed his delight meted with the project’s impact.
He said, ”I am very proud of you because initially, it used to be an old iron single bridge, which cannot even commute a motorcycle for passage, but with this project nearing completion, I am very sure the entire people of Oke-Kudu and its environs will ever be grateful to the Government.”
The success story was also not different in Ilorin East Local Government Council Area, where the Commissioner congratulated residents of Aduagba Street (Opposite An-Nur filling station) and marketers at the Maraba Motor Park on the reinforced construction of 400 meters of erosion drainage channels at both sides of the road, he appreciated the community for their patience while the project was ongoing.
The Commissioner thanked the Council for executing the project directly benefiting their communities while urging them to exhibit similar gestures in the choices of other upcoming intervention projects.
In their show of appreciation, the Magaji of Oke-Kudu Area of Gbagba Community, Alhaji Dan Imam, thanked the Council for the intervention on behalf of his community, adding that over the years, several letters had been written to successive administrations without any response.
Also speaking at Aduagba Street in Ilorin East Council Area, the Chairman of Abata-Jagun Community Development Association, Mallam Saliu Ariyo, thanked Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for the choices of leaders at the grassroots.
He disclosed that the community did not believe the local government when they first came for the inspection and measurements because several similar inspections had been conducted without yielding any results.
Similarly, at the Akerebiata New Garage, the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and marketers trooped out en mass to welcome the inspection team and show their appreciation for the construction of the new drainage with culverts and evacuation of debris inside the drainage. The Branch Chairman of the NURTW, Alhaji Saliu Akanji, who disclosed that they had suffered a lot in the past, especially during the rainy season, appreciated the Council’s intervention.
Another project inspected in the Ilorin West Council Area was the construction of a sand-concrete block drainage and a box culvert at the Osere Area of Ilorin.
