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Relief is on the way for residents of Sango-Ota as Ogun State government plans to embark on clean-up and re-designing of all drainage network in the town.
Commissioner for Environment, Mr Ola Oresanya, said this when he visited on an environmental inspection tour. He said the exercise, which is in conjunction with the Ado-Odo Local Government, traditional chiefs and communities development associations woud apart from cleaning and redesigning of all existing drainage network would also maintain and construct news ones where necessarily. He said this would not only bring relief to the residents but preserve government investment in road infrastructure in the town.
“Ggovernment has commenced lots of roads in Ota-Ijoko, Ojuore and Idiroko roads. These are investment in infrastructure and one thing that will threaten them is drainage issue.
“So we want to preserve them through good drainage network as we don’t want a situation where we are careless and come back next year and find out the roads are gone.”
Oresanya also said government would work with local government authorities to curb street trading as this would change the traffic flow in the town.
Chairman of Ado Odo Ota Local Government, Sheriff Adewale Musa, affirmed the collaboration with the state government on the clean-up and redesigning of drainage network as well as street trading saying the exercises would be painless to residents of Sango-Ota.
