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Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, has hinted that many major ongoing projects in the state will be completed next year by the current administration led by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Omotoso made this known at the weekend during an interactive session with newsmen, saying that Governor Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Dr Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, were striving hard to ensure no project was abandoned in the state. The commissioner listed the projects to include roads, the Opebi-Mende Link Bridge, which he said would be commissioned before the end of the year, the new Massey Hospital, the General Hospital in Ojo, the food hubs, and a school project in Ajegunle, which he noted would be the biggest of its kind in West Africa, among others. “All of the beautiful projects that you see that we have started, we are going to complete them. The new Massey Hospital is almost completed. “What is left is what I can call finishing touches. And you know, it’s not just the building that makes a hospital. You must equip it. That is where I feel that we really have a lot of work to do. But all I know is that by next year, that hospital will be commissioned. “And it’s not just the new Massey Hospital. Then the General Hospital in Ojo, that one too is going to be completed. Some of our food hubs are already completed, and we will commission them very soon. Early next year, if not later this year, early next year, it’s going to be the biggest in sub-Saharan Africa. “And to tell you the kind of excitement that we have over it, it is the kind of hub that can store food. God forbid, if there is famine in the land, it can feed like five million people at least for three months. And if there is so much food inflation, prices are going up, if you release some of the items that you have in the logistics, it can reduce prices. So it’s a kind of facility that should excite all of us. “So I am talking about some other projects, like roads that we have started. All of them are going to be completed. I do not see anyone that may be so, so, so big that we won’t be able to complete. “Very soon, we are going to commission what I can call the biggest school anywhere in West Africa. Very soon, and it’s going to be commissioned in a place that all of you know, that you may not even feel that you will ever have that kind of facility in Ajegunle. It’s a massive school, that is something that one can describe as amazing, as wonderful, as magical. So there is no project that will be left undone,” Omotoso stated. Speaking further, the commissioner disclosed that the second phase of the Blue Line Rail and the Red Line now under construction would be completed before Governor Sanwo-Olu leaves office, adding that efforts were on to commence work on the Green Rail Line, on which he assured appreciable progress would be made, “if not completion before we leave office.” On housing, the commissioner, while recalling that Governor Sanwo-Olu commissioned the one in Badagry a few days ago, said those at Odo-Onosa and Sangotedo were almost ready for commissioning. According to him, projects embarked upon by Governor Sanwo-Olu are ones his administration is proud of and, therefore, cannot abandon them, adding: “It’s not in the DNA of the APC administration to abandon projects.” “The housing project, you guys were with us about a week ago in Badagry, where we commissioned the Ajara housing project. Odo-Onosa is also ready. Sangotedo is almost ready. “So all of these projects, they are not projects that we can abandon. It’s not in the DNA of the APC administration to abandon projects. And they are projects that we are very proud of, and the government is going to complete them. “Either in housing or in health or in infrastructure, talking about roads and the rest of them. So no project is going to be abandoned,” the commissioner assured. ALSO READ TOP STORIES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE
