Bad Road Network: Osun Community Demands Government Intervention

Inhabitants of Kobongbogoe community, Olorunda North local council development area of Osun State have tasked the relevant goverment agencies to as a matter of urgency rehabilitate the bad road network criss-crossing their communities.

The residents speaking under the aegis of Kajoyo Landlords Association who described the road networks as deplorable added that there was bit a single road in the community that was motorable and could afford an effortless drive.

They also called on the state government to come to their aid by fixing the road.

The roads leading into Kobongbogoe from the Osogbo-Ikirun Expressway intersection, Irepodun Street, Aplac Hotel section, Kajoyo Oke Odo and Jagun area were listed as party of the worse ones that needed urgent government intervention.

"There is nothing to print to the presence of either the state or local government in this community.

“There is no public primary healthcare centre in a territory that plays host to hundreds of families.

“The roads in Kobongbogboe are not motorable and are slippery.”

A resident, Kazeem Badmus, said the community had appealed severally to the state and local governments for intervention in the construction of the main access road to the area but to no avail.

Badmus stated that the government has not shown any sign of readiness to fix the roads.

“The state government has displayed high sense of insensitivity to the plight of the residents of the area.

"The inhabitants of Kobongbogboe have not enjoyed dividends of democracy as far as provision of basic amenities is concerned.

“No roads in this Kobongbogboe is motorable. Starting from the major road that enters the community.

"We have streets in this community whose residents cannot take their vehicle home because there is no road to pass.

“We are suffering here. We don’t have stable electricity, Primary Health Centre (PHC) and road.

"We have not been enjoying government or dividend of democracy at all.”

Chief Bola Akinrele, a community leader while pleading with the state government to renovate the Primary Healthcare Centre and the rehabilitate the roads maintained that these were the major needs of the residents.

“What we have been demanding from government is to reconstruct our roads and give us primary health centre.

"We have been on this matter for long and it seems the government does not care about the people living in Kobongbogboe.

“Some of us cannot take our vehicle home again because the connecting roads have collapsed.

"This is shameful. We are in the state capital, not a remote area or village.

"They should be responsive for our plight,” he demanded.