Residents want Wofun-Olodo road repaired

The road linking Wofun, Olodo, Monatan, Iwo road is in a bad condition and it is creating problem for pedestrians and causing damage to vehicles, as well as claiming lives of road users.Therefore, to protect lives and avoid incessant accidents on the road, people living at Wofun, Olodo, Monatan and other nearby communities have urged Community News to convey their plea to the governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, to order state road rehabilitation engineers to begin work on the road in their communities.According to Mr Popoola Akintayo, a resident of Wofun community, but who said he worked at Bodija, Ibadan, the ordeal which people living in the area often experienced was better imagined, especially in the morning and at night, saying they were tired of spending hours on the road.Akintayo said, 'Wofun-Olodo road is actually bad, while the portion from Iwo road to Monatan area is even worse. Not only that, the portion from Leyland to Oki Junction is a death trap and any motorist who is not careful enough while driving on the road would blame him/herself,' he stated.For Mrs Odukoya Kemi, a teacher at Iwo road, she said, ' for how many years are we going to complain about the bad road from Iwo road to Monatan' Does the appropriate organs of the government want to tell us that they don't know the condition of the road, especially the gully which many people often called 'Koto Orun' which is so deep to the extent that it often claims lives of innocent individuals,' she lamented. Mr Akin Onabajo said the road from Leyland to Oki Junction in Egbeda Local Government Area of Oyo State, has become an embarrasement to the state government and has also become a threat to poeple's lives. He, however, begged the state governor to instruct the Caretaker Chairman of Egbeda Local Government Area of the state to rehabilitate the road.People living at Monatan area of Ibadan, especially those whose children attend Monatan High School, Ibadan, have also called on the state government to help repair the road, because the deep gully on the road, opposite the school, has become a threat to the lives of the school children.Motorists plying Monatan-Iwo road also called on the state government to fix the road so that their mind can always be at rest anytime they are behind the wheels plying the area. Some residents of Iyana Church and Olodo also wanted the State government to block all the potholes on the road, especially the road linking Iyalode bus stop to avoid incessant accident.
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