Oyo govt pays counterpart fund for World Bank project on rural access roads …project to provide 1,600 km of rural roads

Oyo State governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, revealed on Wednesday that his government promptly paid the counterpart fund for Development Partners-backed Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP) to ensure accelerated development of the rural communities in the state. The governor, who was speaking at the inauguration of the Project Monitoring and Technical Steering Committee, at the Government House, Agodi, Ibadan, said that the sum of N350 Million was paid two months into his tenure in office to facilitate the project. The project, which was instituted in April 2016, had remained moribund…