The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun has explained why his state is currently one of the top states attracting investors.
This vision was arrived at because of our comparative and competitive advantage. We are the Gateway State. We also call ourselves the Gateway to Nigeria’s Prosperity because we are the only state that borders Lagos State. You cannot go to Lagos or out of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, from any part of the country without driving or flying through our state.
We also identified the roads within our major towns and cities. For instance, we have done justice to the road that goes from the Sagamu Interchange into Abeokuta. We sat down and thought that this were very important inter-state roads and indeed if we wanted to create an enabling environment for people to come here, we must be able to facilitate their driving into Ogun State and make it as pleasurable and hazard-free as much as possible.
On the part of the government, we began different projects in infrastructure, including housing infrastructure which is geared towards providing affordable housing to our people. To date, we’ve built over 1,100 affordable housing units across the length and breadth of the state. And we beat our chest to say that that is more houses than all our predecessors in office combined built. Not only are we building these houses, these houses are being bought faster than we are building them.
Health is under Social Welfare and Wellbeing. So the same rule of total, all-round development applies. We’ve attended to the health sector in terms of providing health infrastructure. We are rehabilitating and constructing primary healthcare centers across the length and breadth of the state. We’ve done about 120; our aim is to do 236, that is, at least one per ward, so that each Ogun indigene or resident can walk into a primary health care center with relative ease.
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