Taiwo Olatunbosun, the Ekiti State Commissioner for Information, has cautioned that indiscriminate building of structures on waterways and dumping of garbage in drains and culverts will exacerbate the state capital’s recurring floods.
Olatunbosun, who issued the warning while appearing on a radio show to highlight the State Government’s accomplishments in the previous year, emphasized that the Governor Biodun Oyebanji administration had spent a lot of money on dredging rivers and de-silting drains and culverts.
He stated that the flooding problem would not go away unless inhabitants rigorously followed the Urban and Physical Development Code as well as cleanliness standards.
Reiterating the administration’s commitment to the general well-being of the people and the speedy development of the state, Olatunbosun recalled that Oyebanji had based his campaign pledges on six pillars that have now evolved into the administration’s development pillars.
He cited the building and rehabilitation of Ado Ekiti township roads, the GRA 3rd Extension Ado-Ilawe, Ado-Iworoko, Igbara-Odo-Ikogosi, Ilawe-Erijiyan, the drilling of motorized boreholes across communities, and the refurbishment of basic health centers as some of the administration’s accomplishments.
