Lagos govt. says Old Ojo Road rehabilitation “on schedule”Â
Lagos State Government says that it is not relenting on its efforts at repairing the rundown Old Ojo Road. According to the government, it contracted out the 7,650m single carriageway for rehabilitation in July 2022, and it would be made into a dual road upon its completion.
The government’s Office of Infrastructure said that the road, when completed, would “serve as a strategic by-pass for motorists from Kirikiri Area/Ajeromi Ifelodun to Ojo Local Government Area.”
TheCornet reports that the road rehabilitation, expected to be completed in 2024, has lingered. As a result, residents and business owners continue to face the hardship of using the road.
A 2o22 investigative report on the stretch of the road located within Oriade Local Council Development Area (LCDA) captures the hardship residents and business owners suffer due to the bad road.
The report, facilitated by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), in partnership with the Collaborative Media Engagement for Development, Inclusion and Accountability (CMEDIA), has the residents complaining on the slow pace of the project.
Ramotalai Akinola-Hassan, the chairperson of Oriade LCDA, in the report, said petrol-bearing tankers plying the axis are slowing rehabilitation works.
She said, “The road project has been awarded but these tanners a s tank farm owners are not ready to give those people the chance to work and most of the houses by the big men here are built on drainage and there is no where water can flow.”
