On Tuesday, the Oyo State House of Assembly resolved to invite officials of the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), South West Zone, over what it described as the deplorable state of federal roads in the state.
This resolution emerged following deliberations on a motion by the Leader of the House, Honourable Sanjo Adedoyin, titled “Need to Urgently Call on the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) to Repair and Rehabilitate Deplorable Federal Roads Across Oyo State.”
Adedoyin, in the motion, particularly mentioned that inner roads in the Ogbomoso metropolis suffered because heavy-duty trucks avoided the Oyo-Ogbomoso road presently under construction.
The motion had called on the Federal Ministry of Works to mandate FERMA to embark on emergency repairs of the inner roads for failing to provide alternative palliatives while embarking on the renovation of the Oyo-Ogbomoso road.
While continuing the construction of the new Oyo-Ogbomoso road, the motion stressed the need for the federal government to provide palliative work on the deplorable road passing through Ogbomoso township to ease vehicular movement and abate daily gridlock in and around Ogbomoso.
Contributing to the motion, lawmakers, including Honourables Gbenga Oyekola (Atiba), Abideen Ogundele (Ogo Oluwa/Surulere), and Mabaje Rasaq (Ido), noted that the issue of deplorable federal roads spread across all zones of the state.
The Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, Honourable Abiodun Fadeyi, who presided over the plenary, noted that it was in order to invite the FERMA to come to the Assembly to explain what it was doing to fix federal roads in the state.
In another motion, the Honourable M. Azeez, representing the Kajola constituency, called on the executive arm of government to see to the creation of fire service stations in each of the 33 local government areas of the state.
This, he noted would aid and make more rapid the state’s response time to fire incidents.
He noted that the residents of the state, especially those outside the state capital, continued to lose properties and loved ones because fire stations were only sparingly located across the state.
Aside from having fire service stations in each of the 33 local government areas in the state, Azeez also noted that the existing fire stations grappled with issues of inadequate logistics, equipment, manpower, and incentives for fire service personnel.
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