Osun Ranked the Best Performing State on RAMP Projects by World Bank

Osun Ranked the Best
Performing State on
RAMP Projects by World
Bank
April 24, 2019 #OLATUNDE
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Comment
The World Bank and the Federal
Government of Nigeria have ranked
the state of Osun , the best
performing state among the five
states benefiting in the Rural Access
and Mobility Project (RAMP)
The Osun (RAMP) project is an
assisted Project by the World Bank
and the Federal Government being
implemented in phases in which
Osun has completed the first phase
of 225 Kilometers of Rural roads as
well as rural bridges and crossings
to link up the rural communities
across the length and breath of the
state while the implementation of
the second phase, covering about
315 kilometers of Rural roads is now
at advanced stage.
The World Bank Representatives
and Federal Project Monitoring Unit
(F.P.M.U) of National RAMP are in
the state for the past few days to
monitor and ascertain the level of
implementation and the quality of
job done so far as well as the impact
of the project and maintenance
mechanism put in place for the
project in the state.
Speaking while meeting with
Governor Gboyega Oyetola after the
team had gone round the state for
the project inspection, the World
Bank Task team leader Engineer
Tunji Ahmed and the National
coordinator for RAMP project,
Engineer Ubandoma Ularamu said
with the level of implementation of
the project met in the state, Osun
stands in a very good position for
others to emulate.

They declared that, the maintenance
mechanism put in place for the
RAMP project by the state is a
sustainable one adding that it is a
good model for other participating
states to adopt.

Engineer Ularamu in his submission
said the way and pace in which
Osun is going with the commitment
and proper implementation of the
project, it would pave way to have
additional financing.
” Osun has already completed the
first phase of 225 kilometers of
Rural roads with additional 315
kilometers, Osun will be having
more than 500 kilometers of Rural
roads through the project.
If the additional financing is
granted and provided to Osun, the
state will be able to have additional
roads that will make it more than
1000 kilometers of Rural roads.
With Osun model on the
maintenance of the project, this will
make it one of the best projects that
Nigeria will be proud of.
Osun has been doing a wonderful
job on the project and others can
borrow a leaf from the state”,
Engineer Ularamu said.
In his own view, the World Bank
Task team leader Engineer Tunji
Ahmed attributed the good
performance of state in the
implementation of the RAMP project
to the total commitment by the state
through the timely payment and
release of counterpart funds,
making the project to pass through a
normal due process and also by
giving the state project
implementation unit (S.P.I.U) a
desired attention.
“Osun has been the best performing
state on the project and it is not by
accident but by hard work and total
commitment”, he stated.
Engineer Ahmed who commended
the state for a robust security
architecture put in place however
called the attention of state
government to some security
challenges facing some of the
contractors on the project.
Addresing the visiting team at the
exco lounge of the Governor’s office
in Osogbo, the State Governor Mr
Gboyega Oyetola who was
represented by his Deputy Mr
Benedict Olugboyega Alabi assured
the team that the state would strive
to complement on its good
performance on RAMP project
especially in the area of
maintenance.
He emphasised the importance of
good road network to the economic
activities of people.
Governor Oyetola said if there is
good roads network apart from
easing movement of people and
goods including farm produce, it
would contribute in no small way to
revive agriculture in those rural
communities.
“The state of Osun is seriously
committed to the RAMP project in
the interest of agriculture and the
rural dwellers as the state is an
agrarian state.
Our government believes so much in
the sustainability of every project
especially on Rural and Agric
marketing”, Mr Oyetola said.
He reteirated the commitment of his
government to always provide
adequate security for lives and
property and to continue to make
the state one of the most peaceful
states in Nigeria and to always
provide an enabling environment
that will attract both local and
foreign investors into the state.


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