Ogun State Government has ordered the contractor handling Mowe-Ofada road reconstruction in Obafemi-Owode Local Government back to site.
Contract for the reconstruction of the eight-kilometre road was awarded by the former Governor Ibikunle Amosun administration in 2013.
However, the road was abandoned by the contractor, CSCC, in 2018, following the failure of the government to defray the N500million it owed the firm.
The dual carriageway road is now in a bad condition, with one side impassable.
The Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Ade Akinsanya, who disclosed this in a chat with reporters in Abeokuta, said Governor Dapo Abiodun had resolved that the contractor should return to site to complete the reconstruction.
The project, he said, stretched from Ofada roundabout to Mowe junction, linking the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
According to Akinsanya, the governor has directed that the contractor should be mobilised to site to complete the project.
He said the Abiodun administration had taken it upon itself to complete abandoned road projects left by the Amosun administration.
The commissioner said on account of the creativity and prudence of the current administration, the 42- kilometre Sagamu-Siun-Abeokuta road, which the Amosun administration claimed it awarded at a cost of N60 billion, but was later abandoned with no work done, is being reconstructed by a firm, Strabic, through two layers (binding and wearing course), at a cost less than N20 billion, including street lighting.
He said the administration has completed the construction of the 19-kilometre Ijebu-Ode/Epe inter-state road handled by Craneburg Ltd. The road links Ogun with Lagos State.
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