The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has said his government will continue to strife to engage Indigenous contractors to execute infrastructural projects in the state.
Governor Amosun made this known on Thursday while hosting the Nigerian Society of Engineers who came to pay a coutesy call on the Governor in his Oke Mosan, Abeokuta office.
Governor Amosun disclosed that the state is starting the construction of the semi-urban roads in all the Local Government Areas of the state, saying local contractors would be massively engaged in executing the projects.
The Governor who expressed concerned with the increase in number of incidences of collapse structures, admonished stakeholders to find a way of addressing the Infrastructural deficit in Nigeria.
While describing the Society of Engineers as hardworking, skilled and sound with great intellectual abilities, Governor Amosun noted that lack of modern tools and equipment remains the challenge of the Association enjoining them to embrace modern technologies.
Senator Amosun who enjoined the Body to always put the government on their toes when not doing enough, charged them to always come up with professional advice to help the government.
Speaking earlier, the President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Engineer Otis Anyaeji said Ogun State is the model to follow especially in the infrastructural development if the diversification drive of the economy by the nation is anything to go by.
Engineer Anyaeji who commended the state government for the great transformation in the state assured that the society would find a lasting solution to the quark engineers practising in the nation.
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