FG paid N600m for completion of substation abandoned for eight years in Ondo, says Osinbajo

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said on Tuesday that the Federal Government paid N600 million for the completion of the 132/33kv substation for Niger Delta communities in Ondo State.
Osinbajo said this at a town hall meeting of Niger Delta communities in Igbokoda, Ilaje Local Government Area of the state.
The vice president said the project had been abandoned for over eight years.
The oil producing communities are in Ese-Odo and Ilaje Local Government Areas of the state.
Osinbajo said the contract was re-awarded to demonstrate that the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government was a responsive and responsible one.
“ We must treat the oil producing  areas as special. Projects  of the substation and transmission line have been approved about a month ago through the NDDC,” he said.
Osinbajo  further said that  the requests  of  the people of the area were  already being implemented by the government.
He said that the maritime university  that was promised  would be implemented soon, adding that guidelines  for modular refineries  had also been released.
Earlier,  Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu had commended the Federal Government for its  responsiveness to the plight of the people of the area.
Akeredolu, however, solicited  for more federal presence in  oil producing communities.
The governor also  urged  traditional rulers in oil producing  communities to continue to preach peace to their subjects.