KWSG approves new master plan for Ilorin
A new master plan has been approved for Ilorin, the capital city of Kwara State, decades after the first and the last one was designed by former military regime of the late Brigadier-General David Bamigboye.
The plan comes amid spiralling population growth and challenges of physical development and climate change in Nigeria’s 7th most populous city.
At a semi-virtual cabinet meeting held Thursday evening, the state Executive Council approved the award of contract for the design and implementation of a new master plan and subsequent training of relevant government agencies and students in the state-owned schools to a world class firm Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd at the cost of N600m for a duration of 15 months.
The council awarded the contract after thoroughly debating a presentation by Commissioner for Works and Transport Rotimi Suleiman Iliasu who explained that the Ministry adopted selective tendering for the job owing to its technical nature and recommended the firm on account of its track record as the number one planning and designing firm in Africa and the sixth in the United States in 2019.
He said a total of four prominent firms were originally invited for restricted tendering process in November 2019: Fola Consultant which bid for N175,268,977.68; Bluenile Associates which quoted N1,784,459,257.00; Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd which offered to do the job at N600,000,000.00; and Akom Construction and Engineering Synergy Ltd which bid for N899,850,000.00.
Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq remarked that the master plan became necessary to allow for proper development, prepare for the future, and halt unplanned growth that is creating urban slums and other avoidable crisis of development in the city.
AbdulRazaq said other major cities in the state would also have master plans developed for them.
“The committee for Offa/Oyun master plan is already in place and it’s working; the one for Patigi will start soon. Same for Lafiagi, Omu Aran, and others. This is not just the end; all our cities will get urban master plans so we can organise the way we live. We can plan our infrastructure. There are parts of Ilorin today that we cannot get infrastructure to because people have built haphazardly,” he said.
“We need to plan how we live not just now but also how we live in the future. In fifty years time, for example, would we still be using this same Ilorin Airport or there will be another airport designated somewhere? Because the Ilorin airport will be right in the heart of the city of Ilorin in about 50 years time. That’s why we need planned neighbourhood, planned environment, and our various institutions.”
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin Hameed Oladipupo Ali Abdulkadir Orire Ilorin Amusement Park Shuaibu Yaman Doyin Group EndSARS KWIRS Earlyon Technologies Haliru Dantoro Mohammed Katsina Ahmed Elerinjare Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen Mohammed Ajia Ibrahim Salihu Ajibola Ajia Muritala Olarewaju Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu KWATMA Ilorin Metro Park KWAFFA Alao Ayotunde Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited Kayode Alabi Tafida Of Ilorin Tunde Kazeem Saudat Abdulbaqi Ubandawaki Kolo Wole Oke Standard Organization Of Nigeria Abdullahi Biffo Mahfouz Adedimeji Aminat Ahmed Facemasks Tsaragi-Share Adedeji Onimago Ahmed Saidu Rufai Simeon Sayomi Opobiyi Oniyangi Amosa Sabo-Oke Naira Redesign Bolakale Saka Ahmed Shuaib Buranga African Democratic Congress ARMTI Oyawoye Abubakar Suleiman Oyun PPS Iliasu Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed Durosinlohun Atiku Dan Masanin Saidu Yaro Musa Ayo Opadokun College Of Education Oro Grammar School Old Students Association Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye Sheriff Shagaya Akume Saka Balikis Kehinde Patigi Regatta Park Bayo Ajia Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin TESCOM 2025 Ilorin Durbar Olawuyi Amuda Musbau Muftau Akanbi Oke Vishvas KOZ Tractors Javed Khan Tunji Folami Yusuf Lanre Badmas Convocation Ceremonies

