The Deputy Speaker, House of Represen-tatives, Mr. Lasun Yusuf, has faulted Osun State government’s claim that it facilitated the reconstruction of the Ojutu Bridge on Ilobu-Osogbo road. At a press conference in Osogbo, Osun State capital, Yusuf’s Special Adviser on Constituency Relations, Dr. Aderemi Ajala, explained that the lawmaker facilitated the reconstruction of the bridge as one of the capital projects attached to his office as the Deputy Speaker in the 2016 budget.
According to him: “the subject of our conference is to debunk the lies told by some mischievous and malicious officials of Osun State Government on the designing and construction of the new Ojutu Bridge along Erinle River on Osogbo/Ilobu/Ifon /Ogbomoso road in Osun State. We were struck by a media report, which was reported on Osun State Radio and Television Stations on 3rd of May 2017, that the award of the “Ojutu bridge was facilitated by the Governor, Rauf Aregbesola and not by a federal lawmaker as widely known.
“As soon as Lasun became the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, on the 30th November 2015, he wrote a letter (Ref: NASS/HR/DS/BNA/M5C/470), to the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, where he called the attention of the Minister to the deplorable condition of the said bridge and the need to design and construct a new bridge that could replace the existing narrow one that was about 102 years old.
“In the reply, the Minister assured Yussuff of his esteemed support and regards. He also suggested that both of them would have to do the processing. On the part of Yussuff, the Minister suggested that he would send his ministry officials to inspect the bridge and that the Deputy Speaker should mark the bridge as one of the projects earmarked for his office as his allocation of capital projects in his federal constituency.”
Deputy Speaker faults Osun govt’s claim on Ojutu bridge
