By Daud Olatunji

ABEOKUTA—Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, Monday, disclosed that his administration has  concluded plans to develop a modern city, to be known as MITROS City, at Isheri area of Ifo Local Government area, where Kara market is located through the public-private partnership.

Amosun stated this in his Oke Mosan office while receiving representatives of the private real estate firm, UBA Construction Consortium, which won the concession for the project.

Both parties later signed a concession agreement on the project.

Amosun, who said the city would occupy 2,000 hectares of land in and around the popular Kara market, added that the project was part of the administration’s housing and urban renewal programme.

The governor who was represented by the secretary to the state government, Taiwo Adeoluwa, said: “We set up a committee which include traders from the market and we agreed to relocate them. Before we move them, we want to ensure that the place we are relocating them is comfortably enough for them.

“The MITROS City will be a place where people can live and work in a clean and healthy environment. There are many companies with their factories in Ogun state, there must a decent accommodation for their workers.”

The chairman, UBA Construction Consortium, Adeniyi Oyedele, said the company decided to key into the housing and urban renewal programme of the government, which he noted has been phenomenal in the last three and half years.