The efforts of the Ogun state government towards ensuring that an Inland Depot Project IDP earlier planned to be sited along Papalanto-Iro road has continued to gather momentum as stakeholders in the project moved inches towards actualizing the vision.

Making this known is state commissioner for Transportation, Engr Gbenga Dairo during a stakeholders engagement meeting in Sagamu, between the state government and representatives of  ARISE, the development partner of the project .

 Engr Dairo indicated that the project would take off immediately as soon as all forms of certification and documentations by all concerned authorities are completed. 

He said the stakeholders' engagement had to hold in order to  fast track the process.

 He further revealed  that invitations have been sent to the Federal Ministry of Environment to conduct an environmental and social impact assessment of the area just as the office the Surveyor General has been requested to carry out a coordinate of the IDP site.

 Reteirating the present administration commitment to the development of the state, Engr. Dairo said the state government is very passionate about the project as it would  open up the state for more commercial activities in the haulage transport sector, thus contributing immensely to the state IGR.

Speaking  further on the importance, the commissioner said that, when completed, the  congestion witnessed daily  at the Apapa warf would be reduced to the bearest minimum as  many of the containers waiting to be carried by the articulated trucks and sea port  would have been carted by the carriage rails to the IDP thus, dis-congesting  the Apapa port and opening up new frontiers of business at the Papalanto and Sagamu axial of the state.

The Commissioner also seized the opportunity to  charge the development partners from ARISE group to swing into action once all the necessary background checks and work are completed.

It would be recalled that earlier in the second quarter of the year, the ARISE technical team visited the proposed IDP site for an assessment tour, while the technical team from the Nigeria Export Promotion Council also conducted an assessment tour and certified the site as fit for the project.

In attendance at the meeting were the state government delegation, headed by the Commissioner for Transportation, Engr Gbenga Dairo and from ARISE were, Mr Manojkumar Bargat and  Mr Suren Abeywickrema.