Senate leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, has stated that the N4 billion designated for roads in Ekiti State in the amended supplementary budget for 2022 was an extension of Governor Biodun Oyebanji’s infrastructure development initiative.
Bamidele stated that Ekiti State would gain immeasurably from the amended supplementary budget passed and approved for President Bola Tinubu to be able to provide palliatives to mitigate the effects of the withdrawal of the fuel subsidy and address the economic challenges of other nations.
The federal lawmaker spoke at Ikogosi Ekiti on Saturday following a service conducted at the First Baptist Church to celebrate the 90th birthday of Pa Ezekiel Oyebanji, the father of the governor of Ekiti State, who, according to the lawmaker, instilled good deeds in his children.
Bamidele said, “Some of the new projects that were approved will be in the overall best interest of Ekiti people. One of them is the sum of N2 billion that was approved for the construction of Iyin-Ilawe Ekiti Road which is something that we believe will connect not only the two communities but will connect Ekiti Central Senatorial District with Ekiti South Senatorial District.
“Recently, Federal College of Education was approved for Ilawe Ekiti, the road will also serve the purpose of trying to open up the community to make life easier even for that campus. Other approvals in the budget are the sum of N1 billion for the construction of inner roads in Ado Ekiti and N1 billion for the construction of inner roads in Ijero Ekiti.
“These are all parts of the extension of the infrastructural development drives of Governor Oyebanji. He met with all of us and he gave us a list of projects that were of utmost concern for him,” Bamidele said.
