Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, a death trap

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Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, a death trap - Motorists

Written by Adebayo Waheed Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Motorists plying the Lagos-Ibadan express- way have described it as a death trap and called on the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governors in the South-West to work with the Federal Government to ensure that the road is totally rehabilitated.

The motorists, mainly commercial drivers, who spoke with the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, said it was disheartening that government and Bi-Courtney had politicised the rehabilitation of the road.

They noted that four years after the contract for the rehabilitation of the road was given to the company, nothing significant had been done, resulting in the death of innocent people on daily basis.

According to them, government ought to have given the contract to one of the big names in road construction.

“If one of the big names in road construction had been given the contract, it would have rehabilitated the road by making it four lanes from Lagos to Ibadan. The result would have been less accidents on the road,” a commercial driver, who identified himself as Adegboyega Tajudeen said.

Another motorist, Mr Gbolahan Adetunji, who claimed that he had been plying the road in the last 10 years, said that the situation had become worse because the South-West governors had kept mute on the issue.

“The governors need to work with the Federal Government to make the road motorable.

By keeping quiet, the governors are not helping matters.

“They have to prevail on the Federal Government to give the road full rehabilitation so as to stop deaths on the road,” he said.

The motorists recalled that last Saturday, officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) were seen filling some of the potholes at the Guru Maraji Village on the road.