By Olushola Okewole
Three issues topped resolutions of stakeholders that attended assembled ward meetings across the six wards of Ejigbo LCDA last week to gather inputs for ward projects policy of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu :rehabilitation of roads, environmental sanitation and security .
The council leader, Hon. Lanre Akinbowale, who presided over the meetings, said they were necessary to know what the communities really need and to ascertain what to target with the intervention fund.
He said that the gatherings were summoned to also inform the residents on the limitation of the intervention and the size of the prospective projects that could be executed at the grassroots as promised by the Lagos State government to assist all the 377 wards in the state on project execution through the councillors.
However, he clarified that the governor is not giving any councillor money to do the project as many people have been asking them for the money.
“What the governor wants to do is to send all the 377 councillors to go to their wards and look for projects not more than N25million and submit to the local government which will forward them to the state ministry of local government where the governor will then attend to the requests. And that is what we have done across the wards in Ejigbo LCDA.”
He reiterated that no more than two or three projects from a ward not exceeding N25million will be handled by the state government.
Akinbowale took the opportunity of the meetings to sensitize the residents on the need to pay their rates, levies including television and radio license rates, saying the local government depends on the revenue for the development of the community.
