TRAVELLING from Ibadan to Saki in the Oke Ogun area of Oyo State has always been hell—no thanks to the perennially bad state of the almost 84-kilometre Iseyin-Saki Road—a federal road—that links that area to the state capital. This agony will soon be in the past.
The ongoing rehabilitation of the 83.83-kilometre Saki-Iseyin Road by the Oyo State government is a continuation of Governor Seyi Makinde’s government’s effort to not only modernise Oyo State but to also see to it that the entire state is connected by good roads.
Saki-Iseyin Road is a major highway to access the Oke-Ogun zone of the state a Several institutions and establishments in the state can only be accessed through the road. The state’s commerce and agribusiness interests are also on the high scale within the zone which causes the Saki-Iseyin road to be of utmost importance to the Oyo State government.
However, the road had been left in a deplorable condition for a long time,…