The entire Imota Community was agog today, Tuesday, 27th June as Royal Fathers, IDPIL Executives and other stakeholders storm Imota Community in Ikorodu Division of the State for the formal commissioning and handing-over of Solar Street Lights, provided for Ayayo Street, a major road in the town.
Many residents and other community leaders also came out en masse to witness the formal commissioning and handing-over of Solar Street Lights to Ayayo Street by the Ikorodu Division Peace Initiative (IDPIL).
The solar street lights which was recently installed along the over 500 meters street was facilitated by the IDPIL, in fulfilment of the body’s SHEER Community Development Intervention Agenda for Ikorodu Division.
In his welcome address at the event, the Executive Secretary of IDPIL, Otunba Ganiyu Olusegun Abiru noted that the body embarked on the project as a way of improving on the security and aesthetics outlook of Imota, through Ayayo Street, which is a major access road to other parts of the town.
Abiru said, ‘Ayayo Street is one of the most popular and strategic street and indeed one of the major inlets into Imota. We have therefore opted for Ayayo Street, from many others considered, based
because of the socio -economic and strategic significance.
Abiru noted that the solar street light project was partly in fulfilment of one of the major cardinal objectives of the body’s SHEER Community Intervention Agenda.
He equally pledged that that the body will still consider some other streets and roads across Imota LCDA for the solar street lights interventions.
The IDPIL Executive Secretary equally used the opportunity to charge Ikorodu Division youths to look beyond politics for survival, citing the example of BJ Electrical, the firm that handled the solar street lights project as an example of a company run by an Ikorodu Division youth.
The Chairman, IDPIL Board of Trustees, High Chief Adewunmi Ogunsanya SAN in his brief remarks thanked Oba Ranodu of Imota for his immense support for the project.
‘Today’s event bears testimony to the commitment of the Ikorodu Division Peace Initiative to strategic interventions in critical sectors of Ikorodu Division communities. This is in line with our SHEER Community Intervention Agenda, which cuts across Security, Health, Education, Environment and Road Rehabilitations’, he said.
‘The hand-over and formal commissioning of solar street lights in Ayayo Street, Imota today represents the fifth acronym, ‘R’ in the strategic agenda’, he added.
Ogunsanya noted that, government alone cannot provide all social amenities required by the citizens to make life comfortable for them and that this was the motivation behind IDPIL interventions, to partner with government at all levels in bridging the infrastructure gap in our society.
He pointed out that, while the IDPIL has touched on Security and Education in its two years of existence, he promised that IDPIL will not to rest on its oars in initiating more development agendas that would make life more comfortable for the good people of Ikorodu Division.
He subsequently announced the hosting of the 2nd Edition of the body’s Annual N20 Million Naira Scholarship and Bursary Award, the on-going construction of Comprehensive and Vocational School project with boarding facilities and planned building of Dialysis Centre at Ikorodu General Hospital and donation of a Primary Health Centre at Gberigbe among other intervention projects of the IDPIL.
He concluded by urging the entire residents of Ayayo Street, the CDA and all Imota community stakeholders to take ownership of the solar street lights and ensure they are well maintained so that they can serve the purpose for which they are donated for all long time.
Corroborating, Ogunsanya, the Adeboruwa of Igbogbo, Oba Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali urged residents of Imota to take ownership of the project for the benefit of the community.
Similarly, the Executive Chairman of Imota LCDA, Hon Wasiu Kunle Agoro, who was ably represented by his Vice Chairman, Hon Ayodele Benson, commended the IDPIL for contributing to the development of Ikorodu Division.
He particularly praised the IDPIL Local Joint Task Force operatives in Imota LCDA for doing a very good job in maintaining peace and security in the community.
Responding, on behalf of the Imota Community, the Chairman, League of Baales, Imota LCDA, Chief Yisa Bakare Agoro thanked Odofin Adewunmi Ogunsanya and the entire IDPIL Members for bringing the project to Imota.
‘We really commend them, we are happy about this project. The IDPIL has been doing a lot and we really appreciate it. This is their first project in Imota and it is a Multi-Million Naira project. We want more of it’, he stated.
‘In terns of security, the project has brought light to Imota, such that there will be no more hiding place for criminal elements in our community and we are really happy about it’, he submitted.
