Save our souls: Community calls on oyebanji, senate leader over electrification, road rehabilitation

By Idowu Adebomi

Residents of Rock Arena community along new Ado/Iyin road, has sent a "Save Our Souls" appeal to the Ekiti State, Governor Biodun Oyebanji and the Senator representing Ekiti Central Senatorial District, Opeyemi Bamidele to please come to their rescue through electrification of the arena and provision of transformer to the new community and access road.

The residents numbering over One Hundred and Fifty (150) Houses called on the governor to assist them in fast-tracking the project in order to make life better for the occupants.

Speaking with newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, the chairman Landlords and Landladies Association of the Rock Arena Community, Mr Samuel Ajayi disclosed that residents of the community have been in darkness for over five years after so many efforts have been made without yielding any positive results.

His words: "We have written many letters on assistance just to get it done and that is this time around, we the entire Landlords and Land ladies of the the Rock Arena Community hereby requesting for the electrification and transformer of the Arena from our kind-hearted Senate Leader.

According to him, "Rock Arena is a fast-growing and developing community of not less than One Hundred and Fifty (150) houses located along new Ado-Iyin road in Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government and less than half (1/2) a kilometer to Corper's Lodge where the facility (Electricity) terminated.

"We have been battling with this project since 2020 as a community but we are not financially buoyant. We like to seek your indulgence as a listening Governor to assist us in bringing light into the Arena, because we know and have knowledge of good and valuable projects you are doing in the state.

Mr Ajayi hoping that if the electrification project of the axis is been executed by the Senate Leader, it will improve and boost the economy of the state and thereby enhance the standard living of the people residing in the community.

Another resident who spoke with our Correspondent, Mrs Ilori Oluwayemisi appealed to the Ekiti State Community and Social Development Agency (EKSCDA), to respond to the cries of the people living in the area, noting that if the project is done, it will improve the life of the residents in the area and also help the security and discourage criminal activities.

"We are appealing to the governor and other stakeholders to help us out. We have been living in darkness for several years now and that is why we are soliciting for his assistance to come to our rescue".

She also reminded Governor Oyebanji on the rehabilitation of the two access roads linking to the Arena so as to make life bearable for them.

The community leaders however, assuring the government their unalloyed community support to take Ekiti to a greater height, adding that they stands solidly behind the administration of Governor Oyebanji.