Osogbo residents protest deplorable road, contractor denies abandoning project
Residents of Cohesion Property, Halleluyah Role in Osogbo, staged a jabber remaining Monday over the scandalous situation of their avenue, which they characterize as one among the worst in Osun Allege. They moreover alleged that the contractor handling the reconstruction, Moshula Nigeria Restricted, had disappeared after collecting a enormous sum from the suppose government.
At some stage in the jabber, residents carried placards urging Osun Allege Governor, Ademola Adeleke, to take care of their jam. They accused Moshula Nigeria Restricted of leaving in the help of the job and boasting about the contractor’s closeness to the governor.
The community chairman, Sheu Taofeek, called on the suppose government to compel the contractor to total the abandoned avenue mission promptly. Taofeek lamented that the mission has been ongoing intermittently for the past three years, noting that four other jobs awarded in a mode of communities by the suppose’s mature governor, Gboyega Oyetola, get since been achieved.
“The contractor started off unhurried and with unhealthy works, nonetheless has since abandoned it with the arriving of Ademola Adeleke as governor,” Taofeek stated. He added, “The contractor is claimed to be a relation of Governor Ademola Adeleke and has been boasting about this, no matter several efforts by the community for them to contain the considered necessary.”
Taofeek alleged that when they approached Moshula Nigeria Restricted’s Chief Executive Officer, Ademola Omidiran, “he didn’t give a reason in the help of leaving in the help of the job. He below no cases complained about no longer being paid. He has been attention-grabbing and announcing he'll be returning to the positioning, easiest to disappoint and go and reports stated that he has been fully paid. The mission is a two-kilometre avenue and now we get got some Ministry of Works and other secretariat workers residing within the property. But they are helpless since the contractor is claimed to be a relation of Governor Adeleke.”
Reacting to the allegations the outdated day, Mr Ademola Omidiran, Managing Director of Moshula Nigeria Restricted, denied that his company had abandoned work on the positioning. He suggested The Guardian that work modified into ongoing on the mission and pushed apart reports of abandonment.
Omidiran explained that his company easiest moved its equipment out of the positioning at some level of the Eid-el-Adha holiday for security causes, adding: “We are help after the overall public holiday to proceed work on the avenue.”
When The Guardian visited the positioning on Thursday, a grader modified into observed working on some avenue sections.Omidiran stated, “We were awarded the contract at some level of the federal government of mature Governor Gboyega Oyetola. By the level he left, we had done 33 per cent of the job. They mobilised us with 30 per cent of the contract sum, that means now we get got done more than the mobilisation payment given to our company.
“The mission is being performed in accordance with the liberate of funds by the federal government. The latest government gave us some money in 2024. Treasure the first time, we did more than the money given to us and we prepared the certificates for the work done and they also merely launched one additional cash about six weeks in the past. Since that point, now we get got steadily been on space.”
We don’t and would possibly maybe perhaps merely below no cases abandon any work given to us.” Then as soon as more, Olumide Afolabi, a resident of the community, suggested our correspondent that the most contemporary jabber precipitated the contractor to return to the positioning.
