Lagos State Public Works Corporation (LSPWC) has urged residents to protect Lagos roads from all forms of abuses, such as the burning of items and indiscriminate cutting of roads to lay service pipes.

The agency also warned against dumping of refuse in drains, articulated lorries plying the roads with excessive axle load, removal of manhole covers and pouring of petrochemical products on the roads among others.

General Manager of the Agency, Tokunbo Ajanaku disclosed this while speaking to journalists on the corporation’s intervention on Ijaiye Road and other roads across the state. He stressed that the agency would reopen a section of Ijaiye Road, Ogba stretching from Excellence Hotel roundabout to Ogba Bus Stop as it rounds off the rehabilitation work on the road.

Ajanaku said that the scope of the rehabilitation project in the Ogba axis is in two phases.

“The first phase which is about 428 metres starts from Excellence Hotel roundabout and terminates at Mokunolu Street junction while the second phase, about 275 metres starts from Mokunolu Street junction, all the way to Kayode Street junction,” he said.

Ajanaku noted that the intervention, which features repair and desilting of drainage channels, scarification of expired asphaltic surface and laying of fresh asphalt was aimed at totally renewing the affected sections and solving the perennial flooding witnessed on the road whenever it rained.

The General Manager also noted that a similar operation is nearing completion along Eric More Road, Surulere where the Corporation is deploying interlocking paving stones to rehabilitate a failed section of the road, inward Alaka.

According to him, Lagosians are to look forward to a larger scale of works being executed in the new year by his Agency as the present administration has continued to express confidence in the capacity of the Agency to deliver road construction and rehabilitation projects beyond just routine maintenance and fixing of potholes.

This, he added, has been made possible through the integration of the activities of the Agency and the Ministry of Works & Infrastructure anchored by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Infrastructure, Olufemi Daramola.

On the significance of the Eric More Road, Surulere, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Works Corporation, Titilayo Cole-Osho, said the road received prompt attention because of its strategic nature- connecting several roads within the axis.

Titilayo Cole-Osho appealed to Lagosians to continue to see road infrastructure as a critical part of their collective heritage.