Ondo State Governor, Fortunate Aiyedatiwa, on Tuesday, flagged off the development of the 11.9km Molege-Agunbiade highway in Owo East Native Council Improvement Authority (LCDA).
This was revealed in an announcement by John Paul Akinduro, spokesperson to Ondo State Deputy Governor, Olayide Adelami, who represented the governor.
On the ceremony in Molege on Tuesday, the governor mentioned the mission is a well-thought-out initiative to enhance entry to farmlands to boost meals safety within the state.
He additional revealed his authorities’s plan to construct 9 agro-logistics centres throughout the three senatorial districts of the state, one among which can be in Owo East LCDA.
“Our administration is absolutely dedicated to repositioning the agricultural communities and the agricultural dwellers to contribute considerably to meals manufacturing by constructing rural roads and establishing 9 agro-logistics centres throughout the three senatorial districts of the state,” the governor added.
He urged the contractor to make sure strict compliance with worldwide requirements and ship the mission on time, asking the host neighborhood to take possession.
Earlier within the yr, the governor flagged off the development of the 15.5km Oda Cocoa Board–Camp 2–Langbodo Highway in Oda city, Akure South Native Authorities, and the ten.9km Idanre-Obajare highway in Idanre Native Authorities, beneath the Rural Entry and Agricultural Advertising Undertaking (RAAMP).
The State Director Basic of RAAMP, Engr. Adeniyi Adelabu, mentioned, “Our authorities’s determination to be one of many taking part states in RAAMP was borne out of the involved curiosity of Mr. Governor and the need to vary the unfavourable narrative related to accessing the agricultural components of the state.
“The state authorities’s steady cost of counterpart funds has positively influenced the state’s ranking on the World Financial institution,” Adelabu famous.
He disclosed that Governor Aiyedatiwa has signed into legislation the payments establishing the Rural Entry and Roads Authority (RARA) and the State Roads Fund (SRF), hinting that the boards for the brand new businesses can be constituted quickly to proceed the event of rural roads throughout the state.
