Residents of over 100 communities affected by the ongoing construction of the Ibadan Circular Road project by the Oyo State government have appealed to Governor Seyi Makinde on the planned extension of the corridor pillar to 500 metres by the state government.
The road project affected over 10, 000 houses and commercial buildings which cuts across six local governments namely; Oluyole, Egbeda, Ona-Ara, Lagelu, Akinyele and Ido, respectively.
In a statement jointly signed by the ICRCR Coordinator, Prince Niyi Fasoye and its Secretary, Mr. Isiaq Jimoh, respectively, in Ibadan, the victims said many affected landlords and landladies have died as a result of the construction of the road
“We want to appeal to Governor Makinde led administration not to extend the Circular Road beyond 150 meters
“We know our governor has listening ears. We want him to assist us. We have no other place we can go. We laboured so hard before we put these buildings in place.
“Many of us have already been affected in the existing arrangement. We are now appealing to the State Government not to extend the Circular Road beyond the 150 metres.
A few of the affected communities in the Oluyole Local Government include Egbeda Tuber, Tech u, and Ajota; Lagelu LG include Ejioku, Eni Osa, Arulogun, Abaoba, Kotilo, Oyagaga, Ire-Akari, Lala, Obanijesu and Aba oyo; Egbeda LG include Ayede and Erunmu; Ona-Ara LG are Ajia, Arowojeka, Badeku, Akamo, Àba-Otun, Mesio, Odeyale, Ifesowapo, Ifetola, Omolere and Oloruntola.
Some others in “Akinyele LG include Aroro Kole, Molarere, Odo-Oba, Ibitunde, Tolatose, Olufana, Ile Ola, Eyin Olu, Oke and Salako; Ido LG are Omi-Adio, Wire & Cable, Fenwa, Elenusonso, Itesiwaju, Lariken, Inalende, Idi-Igbaro, Ogo-Oluwa, Bako, Jamoje, Lade, Olounde, Aganni, Shiba, Alayo, Isale-Alah, Akogi and Agbeni.
“Our prayer is that since we all of us did not encroach or bought government acquisition land, the State Government should please maintain the properly acquired 150meters . Governor Seyi Makinde Should please stop installing pillars on the boundaries of 500 meters to fault us
He should please stop the marking of houses across the local government and allow us to process titles of our properties in the ministry of Lands.
Oodua News reports that the State Government led by former Governor Rashidi Ladoja, between 2003 and 2007, marked some lands for the construction of a Circular Road in Ibadan.
The project was not executed by the late former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala who took over from the administration of former Governor Ladoja.
It was eventually executed by the administration of late former Governor Abiola Ajimobi who started the construction of the road when he was in office between 2011 and 2019.
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