SIR: I have been transferred from Ibadan to Osogbo for the past seven years by my employers and I haven’t seen the kind of massive government projects witnessed in a half year or so. I am particularly impressed by the development of the rail terminal at Old-Garage.

The Old-Garage rail terminus, like many others around the country, had for long been allowed to lapse into a state of disrepair. But just a little over a year ago the place started witnessing resuscitation, which culminated in the launch of the Aregbesola train sometime in April last year. I had thought that would be the end of the story. I was wrong. Few months later, the bulldozers came calling on the mini-shanty settlement that had developed in and around the rail terminal; and as if one was in a dream the slum had simply disappeared and the place had been swept clean.

Also, new sets of earthmovers came on site with workers who began construction. The result is that, today, from the ashes of the old slum, a new landscape had risen, called Freedom Park. I find its sheer beauty stunning, to say the least.

The park’s real beauty comes out at night when the bluish-white floodlights beam down on the vast space. Another impressive side attraction for me is the seal of the state government and the phrase, ‘Osun a dara’, that are beautifully and clearly engraved in stone on one side of the park.

The new park is now the talk of the town and it’s a compelling site for those seeing it for the first time. To my mind, if this is what this government is all about, then I think the people of Osun State are in for a new era of positive development.

• Mrs. Titi Ajayi, Ilesa, Osun State.