Amosun seeks assembly’s nod for 37 new LDCAs in Ogun
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NIGERIA: SHOULD the Ogun State House of Assembly approve the request of Senator Ibikunle Amosun administration, no fewer than 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) will be added to the existing 20 local governments.
Amosun, in a letter, had asked the lawmakers for the legal power to create the LCDAs, the exercise which was first embarked upon by the late Chief Bisi Onabanjo of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) administration in 1984 and Alliance for Democracy (AD) government of ex-Governor Olusegun Osoba in 2003.
While the military administration of the then Col. Oladipo Diya cancelled the additional local governments created
by Onabanjo, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) government of ex-Governor Gbenga Daniel scrapped the councils added by Osoba administration on assumption of office in 2003.
The Speaker of assembly, Suraju Adekambi, told his colleagues on Thursday at the plenary that he had received a letter from the governor in this respect.
Adekambi explained that the request by Amosun was in furtherance of government’s attempt at meeting the yearnings of the people through the delivery of dividends of democracy close to them.
He said that the governor stated in the letter that the creation of the LCDAs would further bring government closer to the people and ultimately ensure further development.
“I forward herewith the list of the existing and new Local Council Development Areas totaling 57 in all for your kind consideration in this regards,” Amosun had said in the letter.
The LCDAs and their proposed headquarters are as follows:
- Abeokuta North – Akomoje
- Abeokuta North West – Lafenwa
- Abeokuta North East – Ita Iyalode
- Oke Ogun – Imala
- Abeokuta South – Ake
- Abeokuta South East – Ijeun Titun
- Abeokuta South West – Ijeja
- Ado Odo/ Ota – Ota
- Ado Odo – Ado Odo
- Agbara/Igbesa – Igbesa
- Ota West –Atan Ota
- Sango/ Ijoko – Sango
- Ewekoro –Itori
- Ewekoro North – Wasinmi
- Ifo – Ifo
- Ifo Central –Agbado
- Coker Ibogun – Ibogun
- Ifo South – Ojodu
- Ijebu East – Ogbere
- Ijebu East Central – Ojowo
- Ijebu North – Ijebu Igbo
- Ijebu North Central – Oru
- Ijebu Igbo West – Ojowo
- Ago Iwoye – Ibipe
- Ijebu North East – Atan
- Yemoji – Ilese
- Ijebu Ode – Ijebu Ode
- Ijebu Ode South – Oke Aje
- Ikenne – Ikenne
- Remo Central – Iperu
- Imeko – Imeko
- Afon – Oloka Afon
- Ipokia – Ipokia
- Ipokia West – Ijofin
- Idi Iroko – Idi Iroko
- Obafemi/Owode – Owode
- Oba – Oba
- Obafemi – Obafemi
- Ofada/Mokoloki – Mowe
- Odeda – Odeda
- Opeji – Opeji
- Ilugun – Ilugun
- Odogbolu – Odogbolu
- Leguru – Ala
- Ifesowapo – Imodi
- Ogun Waterside – Abigi
- Ogun Waterside East – Bolorunduro Efire
- Remo North – Isara
- Remo North/East – Ode Remo
- Sagamu Central – Sagamu
- Sagamu Remo West – Makun
- Sagamu Remo South – Sotubo
- Yewa North – Ayetoro
- Iju – Iboro
- Ketu – Tata
- Yewa South – Ilaro
- Yewa South East – Oke Odan
Meanwhile, the State House of Assembly has invited the Management of the State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) to appear before the committee of the Whole House to address an allegation levelled against one of its personnel by a lawmaker representing Abeokuta North Local Government, Hon. Olayiwola Ojodu.
