The Oyo State Government authorized the contract award for the remodeling and restructuring of the Oyo State High Court and Magistrate Court Complexes in Ibadan on Wednesday (APFA).
A new waste management program that will support the State Government’s waste management drive has also received approval from the State Exco.
The 2.275 kilometer Sijuade Road in Jericho, which connects Akeredolu Street to the Police Barracks Gate and the main gate of the Police Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, has been approved for renovation, according to a statement from the governor’s chief press secretary, Mr. Taiwo Adisa.
According to the statement, shortly after the State Exco meeting at the Executive Chambers of the Governor’s Office, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, the State’s Commissioner for Public Works, Infrastructure and Transport, Prof. Daud Sangodoyin, and the Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Abiodun Oni, briefed newsmen and provided details of the contracts awarded and the new waste management initiative.
Prof. Sangodoyin told reporters that the High Court and Magistrate Court Complexes will be built in two phases and would be finished in eighteen months.
He explained that the RTD Thompsons will handle the contract and that the contractor will assist the State in remodeling the two complexes as well as build an amphitheatre and a conference theater at Ring Road. It will also remodel all the courtrooms at both courts and perform some exterior work in the two locations.
He said, “Today, the Executive Council decided that we should consider the remodelling, redevelopment and reconstruction of Oyo State High Court Complex at Ring Road and Magistrate Court Complex at Iyaganku and approved the two complexes to the tune of N6.01bn.
“The project was awarded to Contractor RTD Thompson, and the commencement of the phase one is June 2022 because the duration of the scope for the first phase is nine months.
“We believe that before the end of January 2023, we should have completed the first phase of the High Court at Ring Road, and later move on to the phase two, which is the Magistrate Complex at Iyaganku.
“What it entails is that the contractor is going to help us remodel the complexes of the courts including the Conference theatre at Ring Road and all the court rooms in the two places. We will also do some external works in those places as we have noticed that the libraries are not the modern type. All in all, the duration of the two phases is 18 months.
“The conditions attached are there, as the contractor will have to show the commitment of 20 per cent before we release the first tranche of the money. It is an APFA project. Subsequently, we pay the rest on equal instalment over the months. Our target is that, once the project is completed in February, we will still continue to pay in April and May before we start the second phase.”
He added that the reconstruction and rehabilitation of a 2.275km from Sijuade road, Jericho to Akeredolu street, to Police Barracks Gate, to the main gate of the Police Headquarters, through Direct Intervention from the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, was also approved to the tune of 683 million Naira and that the the duration is eight months.
The Commissioner of Police Road, the Police Training Centre, and the Police Barracks at Iyaganku would all be included in the extension, he said, adding that this will strengthen the socioeconomic activities in the area as well as serve to inspire the Police.
In a same vein, the executive council also approved the new waste management program to address the issue of waste management in the State, according to Mr. Abiodun Oni, commissioner for environment and water resources.
According to Oni, the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources would oversee Monttainai Recycling Africa’s operation of the new waste management system.
He said that “Part of what we have discussed is how to resolve the issue of waste management in Oyo State. We also discussed some proposals about how to get a sustainable waste management measure that can resolve the crisis we have in the sector. We believe this will take care of the challenge in the State.
“We don’t want anything to happen to the existing PSPs that have capacity. This is also about our citizens, who need to understand how they need to dispose their waste.
“We don’t want people to be throwing waste in canals, streams. We have to generate waste and cannot see it as a problem but we should bring up a solution by managing it.”