Two time-worn aphorisms apply to the plight of the people living in Lagos, Ogun border communities of Akute, Alagbole, Agbado, Olowora, Ibafo, Mowe,
Arepo, Banku, Magboro, Matogun, Oke Aro, Orudu, Adiyan among others. Not a few politicians who took advantage of the area’s strategic vote reserves see them as a bat that is neither bird nor rat. In other words, political office holders who determine who gets what when and how regarded many of them as residing on Ogun territory but work in Lagos. They are neither Lagosians nor Ogun people.
It was this disposition that made the Ogun State Government sit at a round table with Lagos officials to remit taxes of those who work in Lagos but live in Ogun back to the state of their residence. With this new development, the people begged for development since the taxation argument was no longer tenable.
Critics and residents can now see that contractors are working on the border community roads. According to Engineer Ade Olayinka Akinsanya, the Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure: “The 32- km road had been divided into six phases and constructions would be ongoing simultaneously at the 8.5km Sango roundabout to Ijoko bridge and the 1.5km Lagos-Ogun boundary end as well as Ojodu- Abiodun- end of the state.
On 14 November, 2022, Governor Abiodun commissioned the 2.35km Arepo-Journalists Estate Road, with a promise to “continue doing projects capable of making life more meaningful to people and residents of the state.” The road, for many years, had been in a deplorable state.
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