National President, Campagn for Dignity in Governance (CDG), Comrade Razaq Olokoba has taken a critical look at the volume of works son going on the Expressway along Oyo/Ogbomosho/Ilorin road and declared that the Federal Governmen under President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashol (SAN), deserve commendation.
Olokoba made the observation after travelling along the road weekend seeing that the route that was hitherto a death trap has started assuming perfection due to contruction works that has turned the areas into a huge construction axis.
The youthful rights advocate and pro-democracy activist said, when the government is doing well, we should commend it just as we criticise it whenever we notice flaws, stressing the need to give kudos to the present federal administration on the project which he described as a night mare for the past some years now.
“With the level of work going on and with the percentage covered, hope has started rising along that axis with the optimism that Fashola will deliver it before Buhari’s administration winds up next year. So, I therefore plead with the Nigerian people to give the Federal Government and the Ministry of works and Housing the necessary support and encouragement to complete the job,” Olokoba begged.
According to him, whoever appreciates the importance of good roads to the economy would not hesitate to pray for the Federal Government and thank the Almighty God for blessing Buhari with a goal getter like Fashola, asserting that, it was God that bless president Buhari with Fashola, whose penchant for performance has never been in doubt.
According to him, it is gratifying to discover that, all the roads handled by Fashola are already yielding positive fruits when talking about the economic wellbeing of the generality of the people of a country, reminding that development of the infrastructure like good road network in the growth of any country of the world can never be over-emphasised.
Concluding, Olokoba recalled one of his earlier interview thus:
“Good road also benefits entrepreneurs and petty traders, who move their goods and wares from one place to the other without delay. With good roads, goods will move faster and secured from damages that poor roads do cause for businesses.
“In addition, good road saves wastage of several productive hours bad road causes workers while moving to their various offices and causes stress that usually result to ill health and sometimes outright death.”
