Govt partners Julius Berger on roads’ construction

OSOGBO— GOVERNOR Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, has expressed the readiness of his administration to partner construction giant, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc in the area of road construction.

The governor spoke in Osogbo during a partnership meeting with a team from the construction company, led by its Head of West Division, Mr. Wolfgong Loesser.

Aregbesola directed the leadership of the Ministry of Road and Transport to conduct the team round the critical roads in the state for the team to ascertain the best approach to them.

Addressing the team, the governor said that his dream was to have the best for the state in terms of road construction and provision of infrastructural facilities.

Hence the need to partner the company, being a reputable construction company in the country.

He said that the team should be shown critical roads like Osogbo-Iwo Road; East Bypass among others that could assist commerce, socialization and support growth of the state.

Aregbesola emphasized that he deliberately invited the company to the meeting, challenging them that it would be wrong of them to concentrate only on Lagos without considering other states, especially in the Western area of the country, being a contracting firm which any government should struggle to partner with.