Inhabitants of over 1,000 communities on the Ibadan Circular Road, on Tuesday, appealed to Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on the plan to extend the corridor pillar to 500 meters.
The affected local governments with over 10,000 houses and commercial buildings include Oluyole, Egbeda, Ona-Ara, Lagelu, Akinyele and Ido, respectively.
The victims, in a statement jointly signed by the ICRCR Coordinator, Niyi Fasoye, and its Secretary, Isiaq Jimoh, respectively, in Ibadan, the state capital, said the construction of the road has led to the untimely death of many affected landlords and landladies.
“We want to appeal to the Governor Makinde-led administration not to extend the Circular Road beyond 150 meters.
“We know our governor has listening ears. We want him to assist us. We have no other place we can go. We labored so hard before we put these buildings in place.
“Many of us have already been affected by the current arrangement. We are now appealing to the state government not to extend the Circular Road beyond the 150 meters.
“The government should please stop the coat of houses across the local government and allow us to process titles of our properties in the Ministry of Lands.
The state government, led by former Governor Rashidi Ladoja, between 2003 and 2007, marked some lands for the construction of a Circular Road in Ibadan.
The project was not executed by the late former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, who took over from Ladoja.
It was eventually executed by the administration of late former Governor Abiola Ajimobi, who started the construction of the road when he was in office between 2011 and 2019.
