Leaders and residents of Orisunmibare/Ita Faaji Community in Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State have appealed to Governor ‘Seyi Makinde to rescue them from unending agonies of bad community roads, especially during the rainy season.
The community, located in the Ido Local Government Area, falls within the Ido/Ibarapa Federal Constituency and Oyo South Senatorial District in the National Assembly.
The residents made the appeal, having daily heavy rainfalls for six days since last Friday (Sallah Day), which has rendered impassable the only road serving the community from the Wire and Cable end of the Apata-Abeokuta Road.
Speaking with journalists on Friday, leaders of the 22 communities that made up the Orisunmibare/Ita Faaji/Oganla/Alada/Opopin Community appealed to Governor Makinde to come to their aid and redeemed the pledge he made to construct the road.
They particularly reminded the governor of the electoral campaign promise he made to the community in the build-up to the 2019 elections, as well as a report that the road has been put in the 2025 budget of the state.
Chairman of Otu Alaafia Estate Landlords’ Association, Alhaji Ganiyu Are, said: “We want to make a passionate appeal to our amiable governor, His Excellency, Engineer ‘Seyi Makinde, to come to our rescue in Orisunmibare/Ita Faaji/Oganla/Opopin Community.
“It is true that the only road serving the community has never been tarred in the history of Ido Local Government Area and Oyo State.
“What we have been having since several years back is the grading of the road, which stopped about five years ago. But this has even turned out to be a curse for us as persistent heavy rainfalls over the years have washed away several layers of sand on the road.
“We have suffered several years of agonies, depravity, and abandonment as successive administrations have turned deaf ears to our appeals to get the road constructed with asphalt.
“We thus heaved a big relief and we were grateful when we heard it on a good authority that His Excellency, Governor Makinde, has listed our road in the 2025 Oyo State Budget and approved the construction of the road.
“Our dear governor, we are already in the second half of 2025. Kindly come to our aid and redeem your pledge to construct our road. We know that you are a man of honour and that you will remember us for good in our community.”
Also speaking, the chairman of the Gbogun Community Landlords’ Association, Mr Yomi Olaniyi, reminded Mr Governor of his promise, noting that the governor will surely get the road constructed.
“Your Excellency sir, we know that you are a talk-and-do governor. We have seen what you have been doing in the last six years concerning road construction and reconstruction in many parts of Ibadan and the entire state.
“Sir, we know that the task is enormous, even as the resources available to you are very meagre.
“But it takes an individual to effect a positive change in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
“Several efforts have been made in the past to call the attention of our former governors to the deplorable state of the Orisunmibare/Ita Faaji/Oganla Road. But our appeals have fallen on deaf ears.
“Sir, the rains are here and we are just entering the heaviness of the rainfalls. Kindly save us from the agonies and nightmares of our impassable road, particularly at this time of the season,” he said.
In the same vein, the Chairman of Orisunmibare Central Community Association, the umbrella body of the 22 communities in the area, Mr. Olusola Awe, said the name of Governor Makinde would be written in gold if he can grant the residents their heart desire in respect of the road.
“Your Excellency sir, history has a way of recording human activities. You had already written your name on the positive side of history when we learned that you had included our community road in the 2025 Budget for Oyo State.
“We were also aware that road construction engineers from the state Ministry of Works have variously visited our community for an on-the-spot assessment of the condition of our road.
“Going forward, sir, your name will be written in gold if you can take a further step and do what none of your predecessors has ever done. We will never forget you if our community and its residents can, for the first time, have a taste of good governance as exemplified by the Omituntun administration under your leadership.
“Sir, we shall forever be grateful to you, if you can remember us and save us from the perennial agonies engendered by the impassable situation of the Orisunmibare/Ita Faaji/Oganla/Opopin Road,” Mr Awe said.
