The specialized task force set up by the Oyo State Government to ward off abuse of the Senator Rashidi Ladoja Circular Road and its corridors has ramped up its monitoring and enforcement activities with an intensive surveillance of the paved Phase 1 of the high-speed motorway spanning the Technical University access on the LagosIbadan Expressway to Badeku Junction on the IbadanIfe Highway.
The monitoring and enforcement outings, which involved all the representative Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) that constitute the Task Force, was led by the Executive Adviser to the Oyo State Governor and Head of Oyo State New Towns and Cities Development Authority (OYNTCDA), Mrs. Mofoluke Adebiyi.
Highpoint of the surveillance activities was the arrest of some defaulters all along the 32.2 kilometers stretch that makes up Phase 1 of the highway, including the driver of an overloaded commercial space bus whose vehicle broke down and was grounded on the tarred road, as well as a number of other vehicles for unauthorized usage of the highway before its commissioning and tolling for public use.
All the seized vehicles and goods were carted to the headquarters of the Oyo State Road Traffic Management Authority (OYRTMA) whose Executive Chairman, Major Adesagba Adekoya (rtd.) instructed the owners/drivers of the seized vehicles and items to show up the following day for mobile court trial to be spearheaded by the Oyo State Rule of Law Enforcement Authority (OYRLEA).
Other infractions that were pulled off by the Task Force included erected shanty kiosks being used for selling within the roads setback, mounted planks, pebbles and sand on the roads lined drains serving as access driveways for vehicles, tricycles and motorcycles, among others.
The Senator Rashidi Ladoja Circular Road Joint Task Force was set up by the Oyo State Government in October 2025 to safeguard the governments investments in the high-tech public infrastructure, especially in the face of rising abuse and vandalism being recorded. Its terms of reference include removal of illegal constructions from the road corridor, stopping all unauthorized excavation along the corridor, preventing vehicles from unauthorized parking along the Circular Road stretch, preventing unauthorized vehicular and human use of the Circular Road and proposing appropriate punitive measures, arresting the trend of open grazing or cattle-rearing along the Circular Road corridor, protecting installed gadgets along the Circular Road corridor against vandalism, and supporting OYNTCDA on the task of enumeration and valuation of affected properties along the Circular Road corridor, as an input into determination of commensurate compensation.
Membership of the Task Force was drawn from the Oyo State Ministries of Public Works & Transport; Lands, Housing & Urban Development; Justice; and Energy; as well as Office of the Governor, Surveyor-Generals Office, Oyo State Rule of Law Enforcement Authority, Oyo State Road Traffic Management Authority (OYRTMA), Amotekun, and other relevant MDAs, with Oyo State New Towns and Cities Development Authority serving as the secretariat.
