Hopes of many Nigerians on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway have again been swept off, no thanks to the seeming abandonment of the all-important road at the project section of construction giant, Messrs Julius Berger Plc.
However, the Ogun state government yesterday started palliative work on the Ogun State axis of the road.The Federal Government had raised the hopes of users of the road when it mobilised Julius Berger to the Sagamu Interchange-Lagos Section of the expressway (and Messrs Ratcon Construction Company, RCC, to the Sagamu-Ibadan Section) during the immediate past administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Although the arrangement that took the two construction companies to the road – after the concession granted Messrs Bi-Courtney Highway Limited was terminated – was shrouded in mystery, many, although shocked by the action of the government then, had no option than to believe that their messiahs had come in the two companies.
It has now been proved that those Nigerians who were expecting government’s magic on the road were dead wrong, after all, as work has surprisingly been abandoned at the Julius Berger portion; while RCC continues some skeletal work on its own portion.
Today, the bad portion of the expressway at Ibafo is giving many a traveller serious nightmare. The cause of the unending gridlock is a large pothole right in the middle of the road in Ibafo, which nobody is attending to.
It is rather sad that the situation of this busiest road has deteriorated after a long wait for the promised reconstruction.
Meantime, yesterday, concerned about the plight of commuters on the ever busy Lagos-Ibadan expressway, the Ogun State government has embarked on palliative work on bad portions of the expressway.
Speaking during an inspection tour of the ongoing palliative work being carried out by the Ogun State Ministry of Works on the federal road yesterday, Governor Ibikunle Amosun, said; “In the real sense of it and for me there are no federal people, the people plying this road and other affected federal roads within our axis are our people. We are all Nigerians and we are already collaborating with the Federal Government to contribute our on quota to ensure that this road is fixed.”
While explaining that the situation of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway has got the attention of President Muhammadu Buhari, who, he said, would ensure that work commenced on the road after the rainy season, Governor Amosun added that the Ogun State government had only decided to carry out the palliative measures to ease the suffering of people travelling on the road.
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