Gridlock: Ogun Assembly invites Commissioner, contractor over Lagos-Abeokuta expressway

By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta

The Ogun State House of Assembly has invited the State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Ade Akinsanya, alongside officials of Craneburg Construction Company, to look earlier it adjacent Tuesday.

The invitation follows persistent gridlock on the Lagos–Abeokuta roadworthy caused by ongoing reconstruction of the road.

The Speaker, Oludaisi Elemide, issued the invitation pursuing the presumption of a erstwhile Speaker Rt. Hon. Olakunle Oluomo and the Majority Leader Yusuf Sherrif, who raised the contented of increasing postulation gridlock causing unnecessary hold of invaluable clip on the axis.

The duo decried the accelerated deterioration of immoderate sections of the roadworthy soon aft repairs, noting that the concern had worsened postulation concern beyond the power of the State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE).

The Assembly had requested that some the State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure and the contractor handling the project, Craneburg Construction, look earlier the House connected Tuesday 28th of October, by 2.00 p.m. prompt, for an interface connected the matter.

Motorists and commuters person continued to look terrible delays, particularly astir the Toll Gate and Papalanto–Ewekoro axis.

The Assembly said the league would question solutions to the postulation situation.

In different development, the Assembly has passed a solution seeking an urgent request for the resuscitation and constitution of functional sick bays successful each nationalist superior and secondary schools successful the State.

The transition of the solution sponsored by Hon. Damilola Soneye followed the adoption of the statement done a question moved by Soneye, seconded by the Majority Leader Yusuf Sherrif and supported by the different lawmakers.

Earlier, portion opening statement connected the resolution, the Sponsor, Hon. Soneye, said that the constitution of the sick bays would assistance present archetypal assistance and code aesculapian emergencies successful schools, arsenic good arsenic assistance successful aboriginal diagnosis and forestall avoidable wellness risks among schoolhouse students.

Corroborating the sponsor, lawmakers including Honourable Olakunle Sobukanla, Yusuf Amosun, Babatunde Tella, Damilare Bello, Waliu Owode, Oluseun Adesanya and Lukman Adeleye, emphasised that specified facilities should beryllium manned by qualified wellness professionals.

The House further urged the Ministries of Health and Education, Science and Technology to collaborate successful processing a standardised schoolhouse wellness argumentation model by employing the graduates of the State Polytechnic of Health Technology, Ilese, to antheral the schoolhouse bays, portion encouraging backstage schools to found first-aid units and wellness clinics.

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