OGUN authorities have kick-started two schemes, which will boost residential accommodation and industrial development in the state.

The State’s Ministry of Housing has undertaken preliminary works on a 50 hectare of land at Kobape on which a residential housing scheme will spring up.

The Ministry has also sealed deal with a private investor, ROTH Incorporation to embark on a 650hectare industrial estate in Agbara. A memorandum of Understanding for the project was signed recently.

The commissioner for Housing, Mr. Daniel Adejobi made these known while briefing newsmen on the activities of the ministry in the last two years.

Adejobi disclosed that in similar vein, design work had commenced on the proposed 50-hectare residential development at Agbara, adding that preparatory work had equally commenced on the construction of a 549 housing unit estate at Idi-Aba in Abeokuta.

According to him, the ministry which also engages in consultancy services and maintenance work had already completed the construction of some housing estates in Ijebu Ode, Sagamu and Ikenne, saying that the ministry had also completed and handed over keys to owners of the media village estate, a project inherited from the immediate past administration in the state.

The commissioner also revealed that government under its mass housing programme had opened talks with some experts from Malaysia which had been found to process designs that could be afforded by the common man, adding that the group would be involved in designing and executing the Abeokuta City Centre project.