By Olasunkanmi Akoni

RESIDENTS of communities in the Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, recently had cause to celebrate following the commissioning and handing over to them of some development projects. This was at the occasion of the commemoration of the 2,000 days in office of the council’s chairman, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan.

The projects commissioned include a fire service station located at the Council Secretariat which was later handed over to state’s fire authorities; Rainbow Avenue Road; Double Star Road; Kayode Powerline Road; Jubril Olabisi Street; water reticulation project and a primary school at Ailegun, named after Dele Alake, a former Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy who was present at the occasion with other top officials of the council in attendance.

Speaking at the presentation of the fire station, Bamigbetan said it was necessitated by the presence of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in the area which deals in high combustible products, hence, the move to reduce the risk of fire outbreak.

He said the station, financed with tax payers’ money, would serve as first responders to fire- related incidents in Ejigbo. He disclosed that the fire station has also provided jobs for 20 youths in the council who are expected to serve as personnel.

The council boss, who noted that the fire station was the first to be built in the council, commended the Lagos State Fire Service for the technical support it provided while the project was under construction.

On naming the school after Alake, he explained: “Without their combative engagement and relentless defence of the primacy of popular rule, we might not have had an Ejigbo LCDA to call our own and the opportunity that I and the 36 other chairmen got to add value to the lives of the people might never arise”.