Residents excited over progress of work on Lagos-Badagry Expressway
07 March 2022 |
1:50 am
Residents and people of Ibereko in Badagry Local Council of Lagos State have expressed gladness over the spate of work on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
Residents and people of Ibereko in Badagry Local Council of Lagos State have expressed gladness over the spate of work on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
Speaking on behalf of the community, Oba Israel Okoya, the Onibereko of Ibereko land, said in the past, residents spent between five and six hours from Badagry to Mile 2 on traffic because of the deplorable state of the road.
Oba Okoya, who spoke during inspection of the section three of the project, which spans from Agbara to Seme Border being supervised by the Federal Ministry of Works, expressed gladness with the progress of work and called for continuation of the project.
He said: “But today, we thank the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister for Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola for tremendous changes we have seen on the road.
“We want to implore the government to continue the good work so that by next year the project will be completed.” Also, Co-ordinator, National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYC) Olorunda Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Mr. Abdulsalam Ashade, urged the Federal Government to construct pedestrian bridges for the residents crossing the road.
Speaking on the construction, the lawmaker representing Badagry in the House of Representatives, Mr. Babatunde Hunpe, urged the Federal Government to continue funding the project so that the work would finish on time.
According to him, there have been tremendous changes in the pace of work on the road in the last few months.
“I am sure that if this continues the way it is going by December this year, the residents and the people passing through the expressway will have cause to smile and thank the government more.
“I am appealing to the residents to cooperate with the construction workers so that the project will continue without any issues,” he said.
Earlier, Director of Federal Highways in South West, Adedamola Kuti, attributed progress on the project on the N15 billion Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Tax Credit funding.
Kuti, an engineer, said about 17 kilometres had been completed on various stretches on the Badagry bound lane, while measures were on to further speed up pace of construction works.
According to him, NNPC funds have brought in a lot of relief to the project as the ministry has been able to pay some of the outstanding bills for certified works that have been done.
He said: “That is why you are seeing this tremendous progress that is ongoing on this road. NNPC funding for this job is just about N15 billion, but we have been assured that government will not stop funding.”
Kuti stressed that the project was about 25 per cent completed and expressed hope that government continued funding will get the project to about 80 per cent completion within a year.
He noted that the contract awarded in 2018 was stalled due to funding constraints, while actual construction began in earnest between 2020 and 2021 after the SUKUK funding came in, adding that, the NNPC Tax Credit Scheme subsequently came to the rescue.
Kuti explained that from Agbara to Badagry is about 46 kilometres, adding that the road had reached final layers on several portions including the Ibereko community axis.
He stressed that the progress of work had reduced travel time and impacted Lagos residents plying the highway positively while improving commerce on the axis.
Kuti said more than 300 trucks of cement, over 30,000 trucks of aggregates and over 131 trucks of diesel had been used on the project which had employed over 500 people on the construction site.
“From December 2021 and this year 2022, this project has been placed under the Tax Credit initiative of the Federal Government that is being sponsored and being financed by the NNPC.
“We are here to see the progress that has been made so far on this road. This road is very sensitive to the Federal Government.
“Out of the 21 critical roads under NNPC funding we have two in the South West and Lagos-Badagry Expressway happens to be one,” he added.
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