Osun government’s RAMP relieved us from slavery – Farmers

Farmers in Osun state have commended the government’s Rural Access and Mobility Programme (RAMP) saying it has relieved them from slavery.
The farmers who spoke at Orile Onu, Oko Ope, Iluopa villages in Ipetumodu, and Gbongon, among others on the sideline of African Union, Economic, Social Cultural Council (AU-ECOSOCC) Nigeria infrastructure development inspection said the intervention has turned around their fortune.
Speaking particularly with the press at Oko Opa, Mr Monday Olufemi, said the bridge in his village has relieved them of over 30 years slave like life, as they now have easy access to move their produces to the larger market.
Commending the administration, he said farmers in the village no longer need to worry about post harvest losses as people now come to the village to buy off their produces.
Another woman from Ipetu village said the community has suffered this lack of access for years before the construction of the rural access bridge. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works, Engr. N.O Adeagbo, said the clamour for rural development was one of the major agenda of the present administration six point integral action plan.
He said the administration supported the objective of rural transport and travel policy and the National Agricultural Transformation Agenda of the federal government as part of efforts to easy the movement of agric produces across the rural parts of the state.
“RAMP II is to improve transport conditions and bring sustained access to the rural population, through rehabilitating and maintaining key rural transport infrastructures in sustainable manner.
“The project is technically anchor in the ministry of Works and Transport funded by the International Development Association (IDA) in World Bank, French Development Agency, and government of Osun.