Ayodele Olalere
Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday, said the state government and the association of Sawmillers at Okobaba have reached an agreement to relocate Okobaba Sawmills to the new site at Timberville Homes, Agbowa in Ikorodu by December this year.
The governor spoke while on an inspection tour of the project to ascertain the level of work on the site which was abandoned by the previous administration.
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Sanwo-Olu who was accompanied by his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat said the site was 95% completed, stressing that what was left was to mop up the area and establish a police post for security purposes.
The Governor said the massive Timberville also has 160 units of two bedrooms for the Millers, a Brichuete plant to be managed by the Lagos Waste Management Authority where by-products from the sawmills would be processed into a finished product.
Chairman of the Sawmillers, Ganiyu Onikeku, commended the state government for the initiative, urging the present administration to rehabilitate the road leading to the place.
He said the project was started by Babatunde Fashola’s administration but abandoned for four years by former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, adding when the project was conceived, many of members of the association did not believe the government was serious about it.
He expressed happiness that the project is near completion.