News: Aregbesola set to build N4bn cargo airport

The Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has hinted that the state is determined to build a cargo airport to further boost the state’s economy and make it a real alternative to Lagos interm of economy viability.

The governor disclosed this yesterday in Lagos while speaking to a media outfil. Aregbesola said the Osun N4bn cargo airport project was in keeping with his administration’s goal of grooming its economy to become a key commercial hub.

He said, “We are still building an economy that will be privately owned. We need to banish poverty by empowering Nigerians to earn their sustenance.

“Having the cargo airport in Osun is important because it will be an incentive to investors instead of the unattractive roads and the danger they portend.

“Osun is the heartland of 33million Yoruba people in the world. Imagine 200,000 visitors coming to Osun in a year and spending $I,000 each, that is $200m. It will amortise the investment on the airport.

“We said at the outset that we will run an unusual government. Having an airport in Osun should not even be a problem because it had the first airstrip in Nigeria according to history.”

He also said that the state had boosted its agricultural sector through its periodic feeding of pupils.