In a bold move toward expanding housing development and urban planning, the Chairman of Abeokuta North Local Government, Hon. Lanre Oyegbola-Sodipo on Saturday leads Subscribers to the new Prince Dapo Abiodun Housing Estate Site in the local government.
Speaking during the tour with the first batch of subscribers, Hon. Oyegbola-Sodipo emphasized the vision behind the housing scheme and the coordinated efforts being made by both local and state governments to provide affordable housing for residents.
“This is the new town that we are working on. It will become a hub for low and medium housing development under the Prince Dapo Abiodun Low and Medium Housing Estate,” the chairman stated.
“We’ve taken our first set of subscribers to the site to show them the progress—especially the land clearing and preparation work which is already ongoing. Setting out will begin in the next couple of weeks.”
The chairman also highlighted the strategic location of the estate, noting that access routes are well within urban reach.
“We drove in from Lafenwa through Ogun Radio, with the turning less than three minutes from Lafenwa. From that point to the project site is just a five-minute drive.
“Of that five minutes drive, we have a larger portion of it about 70% of the road network there that are just recently constructed through a federal government intervention and we know that with another intervention that is underway, that will be situating again in this new town , the remaining portion which is about 30% of the road would also be completed along side this intervention that is coming from the federal government and of course supported by the effort of our governor.
“So this is the new town, this is Prince Dapo Abiodun low and medium cost housing estate where we have set out to deliver the first phase and of course the second phase will come immediately after”.
Hon. Oyegbola-Sodipo further pledged his commitment to ensuring that all subscribers obtain their legal documents, including Certificates of Occupancy (C of O).
“I will stand for every subscriber for them to get their Certificate of ownership.The only thing that we are going to do is to ensure we have a process that people will have the assurance that they are working through a part from a government to another government from the local government to the state government so we would create a desk that would help everyone subscribing to this estate to be able to go through the process and the application for their necessary papers including the C of O’s just to support the process and make it seamless for them and the assurance we know that they would definitely be having that within the right time “ he assured.