New Shopping Malls for Ogun State
In order to boost commerce and encourage self employment in Ogun State, the state government said it would replicate the type of big shopping malls already constructed in the Ogun Central Senatorial District in the Ogun West and Ogun East Senatorial parts of the state.
The government also disclosed that it has successfully graded and compacted with culverts a total of 1,235.20 kilometres of rural roads spread across the 20 Local Councils of the state.
Government has already completed the construction of the shopping mall located in Shapon market, Abeokuta South Local Council while those in Isale Igbehin, Itoku and Omida markets, all located within Ogun Central Senatorial District have reached advanced stages.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works and Infrastructure ,Kayode Ademolake, an engineer, who disclosed these in a statement by the Agency’s image maker, Mr. Ayokunle Ewuoso, said government’s decision to start the construction of the shopping malls in Abeokuta was borne out of the fact that markets located within the Ogun Central Senatorial Districts were demolished to give the rights of way for the “Ogun Standard” roads while none was demolished in the Ogun East and Ogun West Senatorial Districts to give rights of way for the roads constructed there.
He said: “These big shopping malls we have in Abeokuta will be replicated in the two remaining senatorial districts. Government decided to have these pioneer shopping malls in the state capital because many markets were demolished to give the right of way for the construction of the road while no markets were demolished in the other two senatorial districts.”
Ademolake said the allocation of the already completed shopping mall located in Sapon market was being delayed because government wanted to ensure that there was fairness in the allocation.
