A pro-labour right organization, Labour and Workers’ Welfare Advocacy Centre, LAWWAC, has explained the reasons for its excitement over the about to commence Fourth Mainland Bridge, 4MB, in Lagos, saying, “The excitement is borne out of the undisputable fact that beside the assurance that Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu will walk his talk as usual, the importance of the project can never be over emphasised.”
Convener of the Advocacy Centre, Comrade Omobanke Razak, in a chat with the media in Lagos at the weekend said, “As the name of our organization implies, welfare, wellbeing and proper care of workers are our concern.”
He reminded that “the project in question, which we learn would last for four years will not only provide jobs, the workers would not be owed, because it is not in the character of Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu to deny workers salary.”
Omobanke averred that since Sanwo-Olu’s assumption of office in 2019, he has rather increased the workers’ minimum wage beyond what the Federal Government stipulated, beside special rewards and awards for outstanding performance, expressing the delights that “it is even good that, Sanwo-Olu would be around to supervise the project for the four-year duration of the construction.”
Omobanke, whose group is an integral party of the campaign organization that mobilises for the governor’s second term in office, Sanwo-Olu for Governor Again, SAFOGA, assured that “the project to be handled by Sanwo-Olu will also ginger us more to work tirelessly to see both the projects – the bridge and his second term – come to a reality.”
He added that it would be dangerous leaving such a laudable project in the hand of a non-starter politically to handle.
Omobanke was reacting to the declaration of the Special Adviser to Governor Sanwo-Olu, Mrs Aramide Adeoye at a press parley that preparation for the construction of the bridge is seriously in progress, revealing the preferred contractor for the execution of the project.
According to her, Messrs CCECC-CRCCIG Consortium are the preferred bidder for the proposed bridge project, which will run for about 37 kilometres, and be completed within four years at the estimate cost of $2.5 billion.
Praising all those who are rallying round the governor to succeed on the project, from his Special Adviser on Works, Mrs Aramide Adeoye, down to the last staff, Omobanke promised a robust campaign from the teeming members of SAFOGA across the state that would make the coming election in Lagos State a mere formality for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu and all other candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, across board.
