For Ibadan residents living in the Ona Ara local government area, the bad days when they had to travel for many hours to their destinations are gone.
Engr. Dotun Sanusi, the owner of Ilaji Resorts and Ilaji Farms, has rehabilitated the road that covers many villages, from Dagbolu and Araromi down to the Ijebu Igbo boundary.
From the entrance of Ilaji Farms, one can now get to the Ibadan/Ogun State border in Ijebu Igbo in less than 30 minutes.
It would be recalled that since Sanusi started turning around the area, land prices have not only gone up, but many houses have continued to spring up. Sanusi bought close to 200 electric poles and transformers to make light reach the people there.
Only a few years ago, in the administration of ‘Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo State, he collaborated with the Oyo State Road Maintenance Agency to rehabilitate the 18-kilomet Olorunsogo-Akanran road. This was a part of the many palliative works he has done to alternative routes due to the delayed road work in the area.
Only recently, Sanusi put smiles on the faces of the residents and motorists plying Olorunsogbo, Tioya round Monsifala To Abaomide, all in Ona-Ara local government, when, after close to two years of hardship, he completed the rehabilitation of roads in the area.
The people of Araromi, led by their head, were at Ilaji Resorts, Akanran, to show appreciation to Sanusi, who, apart from being the Otun Apesinola of Ibadan, is the Mogaji of his compound.
“Our many years of hardship are gone. We are grateful to Engr. Dotun Sanusi for this gesture. We will never forget him. Before now, we suffered. Businesses died. We faced economic hardship. It was like we were isolated,” the Alararo of Araromi, Oba Mudasiru Musa Obisesan, said.
Sanusi also donated a motorcycle to the local police post as a proactive measure against insecurity. The officer in charge of the post, ACP Rebecca Oyewale, was grateful for the gesture and promised to use the equipment judiciously.
