Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun has said he is tackling the challenge of infrastructure deficit despite paucity of funds.
He spoke during a chat with select editors after a facility tour of the sites of ongoing and completed projects in Ogun East Senatorial District, including the Gateway Agro Cargo Airport at Ilisan-Remo, road networks and housing estates.
The proposed cargo airport, initiated about 10 years ago by ex-governor Gbenga Daniel administration, is almost 80 per cent completed.
Abiodun, who said he came prepared because he sought the job, added that he did not complain, but to give background information as to why the challenges became daunting, especially bad roads across the three senatorial districts, which his administration had begun to tackle.
He said the government had worked on major roads in the three senatorial districts, including the 14-kilometre Ijebu-Ode-Epe, Sagamu-Siun-Abeokuta road and Atan-Lusada-Agbara-Marogbo Toll road linking Lagos, which was ongoing.
Commenting on the deplorable state of Sango Ota-Oke Aro-Ojodu Abiodun road linking Lagos, the governor said successive administrations had neglected the area by abandoning the road and others.
He, however, promised to provide palliative work to fix the craters on the road before December, to allow free flow of traffic, while also working on permanent construction that would solve the problem once and for all.