Residents of Aba-ibeji, Odo-Ona Kekere in Oluyole Local Government Area of Oyo State have called on the state government to intervene on their roads that have become a death trap.
Speaking to the Nigerian Tribune, a community leader, Mr. Julius Balogun, said: “We have written several letters in the name of the community yet nothing has been done. Those who are well-to-do in the community once contributed among themselves and graded some of the roads but when the rain falls, the roads become disrepair.”
Also speaking, Madam Oyewale told Nigerian Tribune that due to the bad state of the roads some residents who are mobile visit to automobile workshops on a daily basis to get their vehicles repaired
She further said that during the rainy season, some would leave their vehicles at home to prevent them from getting damaged.
Mr Ishola Awoyemi, who is also a resident in the area, revealed why he sold his vehicle to get a motorcycle in replacement.
He further stressed that due to the condition of the roads, commercial motorcycles and tricycle operators have increased the transport fare by a hundred percent.
Awoyemi appealed to the state government to take residents of Aba ibeji into consideration as it did to other communities, especially in reconstructing their roads which is nothing to write home about.
Another resident, simply referred to as Omo-B block venture, who is also one of the sons of the Baale of Aba-ibeji community, said the government had attempted on many occasions to fix the collapsed bridge on another route which is shorter but the contractor handling it always moved to the site during rainy season, adding that any construction work done in the rains always ends in futility.
He suggested that the government should take it as a priority to rebuild the bridge on the shorter road at this period of dry season and should not wait till when the rains set in.
