Why Lagos-Ibadan expressway is struggling delay – Fashola

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola says the Lagos-Ibadan expressway is struggling delay due to the drainage channel being constructed throughout the street by the Oyo State Authorities in its Ibadan axis.

The minister disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja on the inaugural version of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration Scorecard 2015-2023 Sequence, organised by his Ministry of Data and Tradition.

The Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) stories the scorecard sequence which options ministers and prime authorities officers is designed to showcase the achievements of the administration because it winds down.

Mr Fashola mentioned the 127.6km expressway had recorded numerous progress and appealed to motorists and commuters to endure the delays being encountered on the Ibadan and Lagos axis, respectively.

“The Oyo State Authorities is constructing a drainage channel throughout the street, so we’re having difficulties as a result of the contractor has slowed down and we have now to decelerate too.

“We don’t need to end the street and are available again to destroy it for the drainage channel development.

“On the Lagos axis, we’re engaged on the final six kilometres into Lagos; that may be a very extremely densely populated space.

“We left it for the final as a result of we knew it to be essentially the most tough.

“We’re interesting that you just bear with us and we hope that very quickly there might be aid there,’’ he mentioned.

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The minister mentioned the 2 axis had been the final ending touches to the completion of the mission and could be delivered quickly.

Talking on Bodo-Bonny Island street mission in Rivers State, the minister mentioned for hundreds of years, the island had not been accessible by street till Buhari’s administration.

“That is the island the place the well-known King Jaja of Opobo used to dominate, centuries in the past.

“Bonny Island is likely one of the locations the place very huge assets are produced into the economic system of Nigeria when it comes to pure gasoline.

“For the primary time, this authorities is constructing a street and jetties of 39 kilometers mixed into the island.”

Mr Fashola assured well timed completion of the mission, which he mentioned would supply neighboring communities dependable entry to Bodo city, enhance socio-economic connectivity and commerce within the space

NAN stories that Bodo-Bonny street would be the first to attach oil-rich Bonny Island to mainland Rivers State, a significant landmark within the area’s historical past.

“The development of this street, runs by way of most tough of terrains and different difficult environmental elements like a 7km low-lying marshy land with tidal actions,” he added. (NAN)