To tackle perennial flood ravaging Osun State, the state government has expended a sum of N2 billion to expand all water ways in the state.
The State Commissioner for Environment and Sanitation, Professor Olubukola Oyawoye made this disclosure yesterday while featuring on the programme ‘’ Newspoint”, a programme put together by the Nigeria Union of Journalists {NUJ}, Correspondents’ Chapel, Osun State.
It would be recalled that six pupils were swept away in 2010 at Gbonmi area of Osogbo by flood while coming from their schools and this caused tension in the capital as some parents threatened to stone the then Governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola.
But speaking extensively on Tuesday, Oyawoye maintained that the present administration has been able to stop the menace of flood in the state in the past three years , stressing that the proactive measure of the government has saved many lives and mostly the pupils in the state.
She also stated: “Flooding was the order of the day when this administration came on board in 2011, but in the last three years of this government nothing of such has happened. The government has been able to expand over 120 kilometers of water ways in over 100 communities”.
“What the state government has spent could not be equated with what could have been lost in one day if the water ways have not been cleared”.
Professor Oyawoye also commended the virtue of the people of the state for changing for better in the area of sanitation.
She maintained that adhered strictly with the policies of Governor Rauf Aregbesola in his effort to rebrand the state has changed the bad virtues of the people.