The Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Suraju Ishola Adekunbi has lauded the President Mohammadu Buhari-led Federal Government for the recent establishment of the Nigeria Immigration Services Passport Office in the Sagamu area of the State.
Speaker Adekunbi gave the commendation at Friday’s plenary while responding to the submission of his colleague-lawmaker from Sagamu II State Constituency, Adeyinka Mafe who expressed delight over the establishment of the office with through the intervention of the State Government in Sagamu area of the State, saying that the step would help create more job opportunities for the teeming youth in the area.
Adekunbi who equally called for the establishment of the passport issuance office in the Ogun West Senatorial District of the State, explained that the new Sagamu Office would ease the process of obtaining travel documents by residents in the State.
Mafe commended the Federal and State government for their developmental efforts which he noted would serve as great relief to his constituents.
In a related development, the Senator Ibikunle Amosun led government in the State has been commended for its giant stride in the provision of infrastructure in the Obafemi-Owode State Constituency and the State at large.
The lawmaker representing Obafemi-Owode Constituency, Hon. Tunde Sanusi gave the commendation while reporting that contractors had been mobilized and that work had commenced on the construction of a pedestrian bridge at Mowe and Ibafo Communities. Sanusi who called for the speedy completion of the bridge to ease human and vehicular movement, thanked the Speaker for communicating the yearnings of his constituents to the State Government.
Responding, Speaker Adekunbi reiterated that the present administration was committed to providing more infrastructural projects to the people in fulfillment of its mission at expanding the road network of the State for more investment opportunities.
Meanwhike the Assembly also observed a minute silence in honour of the late President, League of Imam and Alfas in the State, Shiek Abdulrasaq Ishola Salaudeen describing the death of the late cleric as a huge loss to the muslim community and entire State.
The Speaker, who was part of the early callers at the residence of the deceased shortly after his demise commiserated with the family of the late cleric, after a member representing Ijebu-Ode State Constituency who is also the Minority Leader of the House, Olawale Alausa lamented the loss of the late imam, urging them to take solace in the fact that he lived a fulfilled life and contributed immensely to the propagation of the Islamic tents.
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