Edo Govt to rebuild APC chieftain’s demolished hotel

…Approves Investments Across Sectors

By Ozioruva Aliu

BENIN CITY – The Edo State Government has announced plans to rebuild the demolished edifice belonging to the All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Leader, Tony Adun, pursuing a Court of Appeal judgement that upheld earlier rulings ordering the restoration of the facility.

T. Latifa Hotel, owned by Adun, was pulled down successful February 2020 by the Godwin Obaseki medication contempt a subsisting tribunal bid restraining the demolition. The courts aboriginal directed that the edifice beryllium restored to its archetypal state. A root astatine the State Executive Council (EXCO), however, told Vanguard that compensation could beryllium considered successful spot of carnal reconstruction.

The determination was among respective approvals made during an EXCO gathering presided implicit by Governor Monday Okpebholo, covering transportation, security, agriculture, infrastructure, and justness delivery.

Briefing journalists aft the meeting, Commissioner for Information and Communication, Paul Ohombamu, said the authorities would further grow its nationalist transport system.

He revealed that EXCO approved the acquisition of 50 caller Toyota Hiace buses (2024 model) to complement the 100 buses earlier procured for the New Edo Line. In addition, 50 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses (2025 model) volition beryllium acquired for the Edo City Transport Service (ECTS), reflecting the state’s committedness to cleaner vigor and municipality mobility.

To boost information operations, the assembly approved the acquisition of 111 motorbikes for information agencies, adding to the much than 300 units already procured by the government.

In agriculture, 5 bulldozers and 1 lowbed motortruck were approved for the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security to trim dependence connected rented equipment.

On infrastructure, EXCO gave support for the operation and rehabilitation of strategical roads successful Edo’s lipid and state producing areas nether the Edo State Oil and Gas Producing Areas Development Commission (EDSOPADEC). The projects see the operation of Eromo Road and Presidential Road successful Ikpoba-Okha LGA, rehabilitation of Ugo Market Road successful Orhionmwon LGA, and operation of Odion Umoru Road successful Ikpoba-Okha LGA.

Ohombamu said the initiatives bespeak Governor Okpebholo’s resoluteness to fortify work delivery, amended mobility, and stimulate socio-economic maturation crossed Edo State.

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