Oyo’s N1.2bn grain silos not in sight 10years after conception | TheCable Cc: seyiamakinde, oyostategovt
“You know that if the project had been implemented, it would be capable of providing over 2000 jobs to our youths because, with about 10,000 metric tons, its potential would enhance agricultural narratives in our state,” Jagumolu said.
The official recalled that the state used to have grain silos that contained about 7,000 tons of grains built by Obafemi Awolowo, then premier of the old western region, However, in 2019, Seyi Makinde, the current governor, in his bid to revive the project appealed to the contractor to have an out-of-court settlement. Then, he allotted another N300 million to the project, prompting the contractor to promise completion of the project by January 2020.To salvage the project, the Oyo Global Forum , a socio-political association, said they once engaged the contractor on the way forward.
“It is unfortunate that the contractor is deliberately making the project impossible to complete despite all we have done to resolve the matter. He has always been evasive even after we used the MoU to force his hands; Oyo state is yet to see its much dreamed-about grain silos,” Sanda lamented. Meanwhile, every effort by this reporter to get the contractor, Mufutau Raheem, to speak on the project did not yield any fruit. The company’s website where the reporter hoped to get full details had the wrong address which indicated Agbowo Shopping Complex in Ibadan. But when the reporter visited the complex, he found that Agbowo Complex was under construction.
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