Ambode commissions inner-city roads, police post

Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly,
Mudashiru Obasa (left); Deputy Governor
Oluranti Adebule; Kano State Governor,
Abdullahi Umar Ganduje; his Lagos State
counterpart, Akinwunmi Ambode; wife,
Bolanle and Speaker, Kano State House
of Assembly, Kabiru Alhassan Rurum;
during Ganduje’s visit to Lagos House,
Ikeja…yesterday.
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi
Ambode, has commissioned the
popular Brown Street in Oshodi; Okota
Road in Isolo and a police post in Ejigbo
areas of the state.
Speaking at the commissioning, the
governor, who was represented by the
Commissioner for Local Government
and Community Affairs, Muslim Folami,
said he had promised during his
inauguration to run a government of
inclusion where everyone has a say.
Also, Ambode assured residents that
the 114 inner roads embarked upon by
his administration in all of the state’s
57 councils would be completed by the
end of next month.
He urged community leaders and
residents alike to jealously guard
government infrastructure within their
domains.
The governor had earlier commissioned
various projects in different pars of the
state.
While assuring that his administration
would make the councils very vibrant
in delivering the dividends of
democracy to their various
communities, the governor assured that
he would continue to support the third
tier of government to provide basic
infrastructure for the people of the
state.
At the Apapa local council, the projects
commissioned by Ambode include nine
roads within the council’s Business
District, an ultra-modern Liverpool
jetty, 12 blocks of classrooms at
Methodist Nursery and Primary School
and four blocks of classrooms at
Arakan Barracks Nursery and Primary
School with standard facilities such as
modern toilets, sick bay, furniture,
ceiling fans, ramps to accommodate the
physically challenged among others.