Iseyin Indigenes Urge Tinubu To Construct Sokoto-Iseyin-Badagry Road

Iseyin Indigenes Urge Tinubu To Construct Sokoto-Iseyin-Badagry Road

The people of Iseyin in Iseyin local government of Oyo State have appealed to President Bola Tinubu to actualize the construction of the abandoned Sokoto-Iseyin-Badagry road so as the expand business opportunities of Nigeria and her neighboring countries.

The project was conceived 42 years ago during the military administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and had been left undone till date.

On a news programme on JAMZ 100.1 FM, Ibadan on Tuesday, Mr Mufutau Areowo from Iseyin said judging from the fact that the last government under former President Muhammadu Buhari did not embark on any road project in the Oke-Ogun area, the Sokoto-Iseyin-Badagry road would be a worthy compensation.

”If the federal government can look towards this road, so many advantages will be accrued to the people of Oke-Ogun, Oyo State, northern Nigeria and our neighboring countries.

”Imagine the usefulness of this road to salvaging farm products that always go to waste annually because there is no reliable market for them, with the road in place, farm products and allied products from cottage industries from this side of Nigeria will be exported to Togo, Benin Republic, Cameroon and the rest.”

In 2021, the Nigerian Senate mandated its committees on Works, Finance and National Planning and Economic Development to investigate the abandonment of the Sokoto-Iseyin-Badagry road, 40 years after its initiation.

The Senate also asked the federal government to initiate Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) or Public Private Partnership (PPP) process to find the construction of the road.

The road connects twelve States, including Lagos/Badagry, Ogun/Agbara, Oyo/Iseyin/Abeokuta, Kwara, Niger, Kebbi and Sokoto State and neighboring Benin Republic, Togo and Niger Republic.