The Oyo State Government has recently extended the completion date of the Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja road also known as Ibadan Circular Road.
The 110km road, also cutting across bridges and interchanges on the South-West segment of the circular will now be completed in 24 months.
Commenting on the road on Saturday the Oyo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Dotun Oyelade, said the road will make Oyo accessible to all road networks in the federation.
Commending Governor Seyi Makinde for his achievements in the state, Oyelade said the governor had done more for the people of the state in his second term in office compared with his first tenure recorded accomplishments.
The commissioner added that Makinde’s achievements had allayed the historical phobia people usually have about second-term governors and their performances.
Oyelade disclosed that out of the 335.19km roads constructed since 2019, 144.37km were constructed in the first four years, adding that 190.82km roads had been inaugurated in just 17 months into Makinde’s second term in office.
The commissioner also revealed that before the end of October, 7,000 primary school teachers out of the 46,000 who sat for the computer-based test, would receive their employment letters.
“The 7,000 new teachers being recruited are more than the 5,000 secondary school teachers the Seyi Makinde administration employed in his first term,” Oyelade said.
Oyelade said 692 Education Officers, 60 Environmental Health Officers, 19 Lands Officers, and 30 Lawyers, had earlier been recruited into the mainstream of the Oyo State Civil Service.
He also said the Civil Service Commission, earlier in the first week of October, had announced the recruitment of 791 workers into the mainstream.
“If the 791 recruits are added, the Seyi Makinde-led administration would have broken the employment record of the state by recruiting 1,592 into the service, halfway into its second term,” the commissioner said.
The commissioner said Makinde’s efforts since 2019 had repositioned the Ibadan Airport, now renamed Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport, and upgraded to international status, which would make Oyo State the commercial hub of the southwest.
Oyelade said the Fasola Industrial Estate the transformative initiative of Governor Makinde in Agribusiness, had 10 industries on the 1,100 hectares farm and is now the destination for local and international private investors.
Recall that Makinde, at a leadership retreat with top government officials, on October 4, 2023, shortly after his re-election, promised that his second term in office would witness more accelerated growth in all sectors than in his first term, with people-friendly policies.
The governor at the retreat, had warned members of his cabinet that the people of Oyo State would neither take excuses nor stories from his administration, and the governor therefore gave a matching order to his team to ensure their performances outweighed his first term achievements.
