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See Details Of Sanwo-Olu’s Town Hall Meeting With Eti-Osa Residents
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Sanwo-Olu held a town hall meeting in Eti-Osa on Sunday.
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It was a chance for the Lagos governor to share his infrastructure renewal efforts with residents.
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The residents reportedly applauded the governor’s intervention and asked for more.
Eko Hot Blog reports that Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, had a heart-to-heart conversation with residents of Eti-Osa on Sunday.
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The Town Hall meeting, held at the Monarch along Lekki-Epe Expressway, offered the Eti Osa residents an opportunity to air their concerns and share tips on how the state government can improve infrastructure in the corridor.
The event was attended by Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, top Government officials, and all the traditional rulers in Eti-Osa, their chiefs, and village heads.
According to a statement signed by Sanwo-Olu’s spokesperson, Gboyega Akosile, the Town Hall meeting adopted a no-holds-barred approach, which gave the governor the chance to get first-hand feedbacks from the citizens living on the corridor.
“Sanwo-Olu used the opportunity to give account of his administration’s development projects executed in Eti-Osa, which included the construction of a network of five roads in Victoria Island-Lekki axis, re-designing of six traffic points along the Lekki-Epe Expressway,” the statement reads.
“Other projects initiated by the Sanwo-Olu government on the corridor include the ongoing Regional Road construction, improvement of Abraham Adesanya Roundabout, General Hospital at Ikota, completion of Badore Jetty and introduction of Motor Vehicle Administration Agency (MVAA) in Lekki.
“The Governor added that his administration had also built schools, rehabilitated over 30 network of roads on the Eti-Osa corridor, including desilting and channelisation of Abraham Adesanya canal and McGregor Channel.”
Sanwo-Olu also told the Eti-Osa residents that the Fourth Mainland Bridge will be another major capital infrastructure that would change their lives.
He reportedly pledged that his government would compensate property owners whose buildings fall into the project’s right-of-way.
“Despite the facility renewal efforts, residents believed the government needed to raise the bar in infrastructure delivery to address growing population,” the governor’s spokesperson said.
“Sanwo-Olu spent several minutes, responding to direct questions from the residents raised concerns about inner road connectivity, inadequate health care facilities and schools, recreational facilities, drainage channelisation and environment beautification.
“Responding to the complaint about indiscriminate development and the attendant hazard, the Governor said many of the gated Estates in the Eti-Osa needed comprehensive regeneration, but said the residents were opposed to the move.”
On Coastal Road, Sanwo-Olu said: “We believe Regional Road and Coastal Road will bring huge relief to Eti-Osa, but we started from Regional Road which is not as capital intensive and complex as Coastal Road. With the resources available to the State, we can only have bit by bit construction on the Coastal Road, except the Federal Government intervenes.”
On when the government would start the construction of Saliu Obodo Road in Eti-Osa, the governor said there would be a stakeholder engagement before the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development would be directed to clear alignment before the project would commence.
He added that plans were being made to start the construction of Orchid Road, but said the project would be done in phases.
Sanwo-Olu said the lack of recreational facilities for the youth in Eti-Osa was due to fast pace of development, stressing that landowners were aiming at selling the reserve that would have been allotted for parks and recreation.
“He directed the Executive Secretary of Lands Bureau to immediately look for spaces for development of youth centres in Eti-Osa,” the statement said.
“The Governor acceded to the request by residents of Sea Side Estate in Ajah for a rebate in application fee for land title, expressly approving 10 per cent discount to enable the property owners get titles for their properties.
“Thanking the Eti-Osa residents for hearing him out, Sanwo-Olu urged them to keep faith in his Government and political party.”
“Lagos has been a blessing for all residents and the efforts by the State Government to bring development to all areas of the State has affected the economy positively. The question we should ask ourselves is, why can’t we replicate the development in other parts of the country,” the governor was quoted as saying.
FURTHER READING
Eti-Osa is a fast-growing residential and commercial settlement, comprising Ikoyi-Obalende, Iru-Victoria Island, Lekki, Victoria Garden City (VGC), Ajah and communities around Sangotedo axis.
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