The Lagos Blue Rail Line project will extend into the border towns of Ogun state, the state government has announced.
The State Commissioner of Finance and Economic Adviser to the Governor, Mr Dapo Okubadejo, disclosed this at a media event organised to highlight the state 2024 budget held at the Olusegun Osoba Press Centre, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
He said, “2024 is focusing on the provision of infrastructure at the various economic development clusters while extending the Lagos Blue Rail Line Project into Agbara and ensuring the well-extending of the Lagos Red Rail Line Project to Ijoko and Ifo/Kajola in line with the execution of the state’s multi-modal transport plan under the Lagos-Ogun Joint Development Commission initiative.”
Okubadejo said the 2024 budget, which is put at N703.03 billion and tagged “The Budget of Sustained Growth and Development,” is made up of N287.37 billion in recurrent and N415.66 billion in capital expenditures.
Also speaking, the State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Ade Akinsanya said the State will work with the Federal Ministry of Works to get the Sango-Owode-Idiroko road and Lagos-Sango-Abeokuta road reconstructed.
