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From Lukman Olabiyi
The Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, has hinted that many major projects will be completed by the current administration led by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu by the end of this year and next year.
Omotoso, who revealed this during an interactive session with journalists in Lagos, noted that the Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and his deputy, Dr Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, are striving hard to ensure no project is abandoned.
He said: “All of the beautiful projects that you see that we have started, we are going to complete them. The new Massey Hospital is almost completed. The Opebi-Mende Link Bridge will be commissioned before the end of the year. What is left is what I can call finishing touches. And you know, it’s not just the building that makes a hospital. You must equip it.
“That is where I feel that we really have a lot of work to do. But all I know is that by next year, that hospital will be commissioned. And it’s not just the new Massey Hospital. The General Hospital in Ojo, that one too is going to be completed. Some of our food hubs are already completed, and we will commission them very soon. Early next year, if not later this year, the biggest in sub-Saharan Africa.
“And to tell you the kind of excitement that we have over it, it is the kind of hub that can store food. Go for a visit; if there is famine in the land, it can feed at least five million people for three months. And if there is so much food inflation, prices are going up. If you release some of the items that you have in the logistics, it can reduce prices. So it’s a kind of facility that should excite all of us.
“So I am talking about some other projects like roads that we have started. All of them are going to be completed. I do not see any one that may be so big that we won’t be able to complete.”
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The commissioner added that the second phase of the Blue Line Rail is still under construction, saying the second phase of the Red Line too is ongoing and will be completed before Governor Sanwo-Olu leaves office.
He said: “And of course, the Green Rail Line, as I speak with you now, the meeting is going on. On that, it will also be started, and everybody will see appreciable progress, if not completion, before we leave office. So there is nothing that we are doing now that we are not going to complete.
“The housing project, you were with us about a week ago in Badagry, where we commissioned the Ajara housing project. Odo-Onosa is also ready. Sangotedo is almost ready.
“So all of these projects, they are not projects that we can abandon. It’s not in the DNA of the APC administration to abandon projects. And they are projects that we are very proud of, and the government is going to complete them.
“Whether in housing or in health or in infrastructure, talking about roads and the rest of them. So no project is going to be abandoned. Very soon, we are going to commission what I can call the biggest school anywhere in West Africa. Very soon, and it’s going to be commissioned in a place that all of you know, that you may not even feel that you will ever have that kind of facility in Ajegunle. It’s a massive school that is something that one can describe as amazing, as wonderful, as magical. So there is no project that will be left undone.”
