The Senate has summoned the Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, to explain why the contractor handling a section of the Ogbomoso-Oyo Road has abandoned the project.
The upper chamber directed the Senate Committee on Works, chaired by Senator Barinada Mpigi (PDP, Rivers South-East), to immediately summon the Minister to clarify the circumstances surrounding the project’s abandonment.
Additionally, the lawmakers called on the Federal Government to urgently instruct the relevant authorities to complete the rehabilitation of the old Ogbomoso-Oyo Road to prevent further negative incidents.
These resolutions follow a motion sponsored by Senator Abdulfatai Buhari (APC, Oyo North), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Aviation.
“Senate notes that in the last month, the people of Ogbomoso land have been plunged into an unprecedented crisis, occasioned by a tragic petrol tanker accident that occurred on the road, which resulted in traffic gridlock, rendered some inhabitants of the area homeless, paralysed economic activities as well as claimed some innocent lives,” he said.
“Further worried that this road, which is less than 500 meters long, has become a deathtrap, responsible for numerous accidents in recent times, as over ten accidents have occurred within just a few days, leading to loss of lives, injuries, and devastating impacts on businesses, whereby perishable goods from the north have been ruined, and shipments from ports and companies, amounting to millions of naira, left stranded.”