Abeokuta-Ilaro Road rehabilitation is federal government project and not constituency project, says community development committee

The Oke-Ata Area Community Development Committee, ACDC, has explained that the ongoing rehabilitation Oke-Ata Road in Abeokuta North local government of Ogun State under Abeokuta-Ilaro project is a federal government project.

Penpushing reports that the Chairman of the Oke-Ata Area Community Development Committee, (ACDC), Hon Kareem Ademuyiwa made this known in a statement, explaining that the clarification became necessary in reaction to a video clip of some community members thanking the Senator representing Ogun West, Senator Solomon Olamilekan for the rehabilitation of the road.

The community in the statement added that the persons in the video has no blessings of the 52 Community Development Associations (CDAs) in Oke-Ata area, nor they do represent the interest of the people of Oke-Ota but their personal gains.

Penpushing further reports that the statement equally clarified that the project is a N57billion project awarded by the Ministry after the approval of the Federal Executive Council meeting of Monday, July, 29, 2024.

The Community Development Committee, expressed dismay on why supposedly educated persons would attribute a N57billion project spanning different federal constituencies to a constituency project of a Senator if not to manipulate the people.

‘The Oke-Ata Area Community Development Committee, ACDC, has expressed a rude shock and disbelief over a video clip going viral with a caption ‘Joint Meeting of CDAs at Ita-Oshi-Oke Ata Mango Area’ purportedly showing an appreciation to Senator Solomon Olamilekan, popularly known as Yayi on the rehabilitation of Abeokuta-Iboro-Ilaro road’.

“In the purported clip of less than five minutes, Senator Olamilekan was commended for the construction of a N57 billion road, with some individuals’ unknown to the leadership of the ACDC, taking turns to speak, while claiming to represent six Communities in Oke-Ata’, the statement added.

‘The general public is advised to take the claims of linking the project to the Senator representing Ogun West at the National Assembly with a pinch of salt, as the said project is a direct Federal Government’s Project by the Federal Ministry of Works and not a Constituency Project of Senator Yayi as was deliberately manipulated in the clip’.

‘The project worth N57 billion was among the N1.455 trillion road projects approved for implementation by the Federal Executive Council of Monday, 29th July, 2024. The Road, according to the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, was awarded to Strabic Constructions’, the statement added.

“For the avoidance of the doubt and as a result of disinformation the purported clip has generated, the leadership of Oke-Ata Community Development Committee consisting 52 Community Development Association, (CDA) dissociates itself from the shenanigans as its leadership was neither carried along nor was part of the show which appears like a shame’.

‘It should also be noted that no single leadership of the CDAs in Oke-Ata CDC was involved in the clip, neither was any member or the leadership of Abeokuta North Zonal Community Development Committee within the Oke-Ata ACDC was involved’

Penpushing also reports that the body highlighted that all the characters in the said video are not known to the leadership of the Community Development Committee (CDC), but manipulated the ignorance of their followers for their selfish reasons.

‘The general public is also, by this release, informed that all the characters in the said video clip are not known to the Oke-Ata Area CDC, neither do they represent the interest of the 52-member CDA in the Oke-Ata Area CDC. They represent their selfish interest while manipulation the ignorance of some unsuspecting members of the Community who were hurriedly drafted for the protest’, the statement emphasised.

‘These characters were never involved in the struggles on the ongoing project either at the Ogun State Assembly meeting with the contractors, appearances at radio station, or the stakeholders meeting with the Ogun State Controller of Works at the Federal Ministry of Works’.

‘They were however advised to take their politics of deceit elsewhere, saying the ACDC would not allow anyone take advantage of the collective interest of the people for their selfish gain. The ACDC also thanked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Minister of Works and the Ogun State Controller of Works in the Ministry for the ongoing project’, the statement added.

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