RESIDENTS of Road 31, Gowon Estate, in Mosan-Okunola LCDA, have decried the condemned state of the Roundabout in their community.
Some of the residents spoke to AlimoshoToday's correspondence on Friday, March 25, 2022, to express their displeasure on the condition of the spot.
The Roundabout, originally designed for beautification, is now a dumping ground decorated with litters, hence a threat to the well-being of the community at large.
AlimoshoToday visited the area, on Friday after being invited by one Mr Donald Enubele, a resident of the community, to seek out why this suburban settlement of literates is abused and abandoned.
"I will blame the Local Government for this embarrassment. When they construct something like this, it is their duty to sustain it. They just put it there and they go and never come back", one Mr Deinde Asuni, a resident said.
He went on to say, "We like to copy Oyinbo people, but we don't think of the future of what we copy. This Roundabout was not like this before. They planted flowers there before. It was very beautiful and clean, but it was deprived of maintenance. Am I the one to trim the flowers and wet them? Maintenance culture is a problem in this part of the world, even look at our roads, they are very bad and they are a pain for motorists".
Another resident of the area, however, disagreed with Asuni. Pastor Remilekun Adelaja was of the opinion that the residents of the area are to be blamed for the Roundabout's uninviting state. Pastor Adelaja, although agreed that the local government is not standing up to the responsibility of sustaining the beautification of the Roundabout as it should be expected, he emphasized that the community people are their very own problem.
He said, "The government of the day has its own deficiencies, yes, but we the people are our very own problem. The government does not maintain their projects, agreed, but is the government the one dumping refuse there?
"We should ask ourselves some questions: is it normal for a human being, literates for that matter, to dump refuse at this very place? The government has always failed us. This is not news anymore, but how can we confront the government of the day without first doing the right thing? It is a complex situation. May God help us."
AlimoshoToday correspondence's made attempt to meet the officials, or the spokesman, of the Residents Association of the area, however, all efforts turned out impossible.
