LAGOS-IBADAN EXPRESSWAY CONSTRUCTION WILL BE COMPLETED IN 2022, SAYS WORKS CONTROLLER
The Controller listed the additional features to include underpasses, footbridges, flyovers, toll plazas and road expansion, emphasisng that the additional features shifted the completion date, and also added that the additional features made the completion level to still be at 40 per cent which it recorded months ago.
Penpushing further reports that, Kuti while speaking on the Ikorodu-Sagamu Road, expected to serve as an alternative route as construction work progresses on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, said that the project was about 18 per cent completed.
The Controller of Works, however, stated that critical sections of the highway likely to cause gridlock had been stabilized, adding, “the highway is about 18 per cent completed but I can tell you now for sure that there is great improvement on the road. What we did is to, first of all, tackle critical spots that cause traffic, and we are trying to link them up.,” he said.
Penpushing also reports that, Kuti while speaking further said that the Ministry of Works, Housing and Power was working at night on some roads to ease gridlock, adding, “We have been fixing terrible but strategic roads. We are intervening here and there’.
The Controller pointed out that several road projects were abandoned in the past due to funding constraint, compelling the government to seek alternative sources of funding to fix more roads,but added that, contractors are no longer being owed. “Now, it is open-ended for contractors to collect whatever is the worth of work done in any project.”
“A lot of projects were having difficulties getting appropriate funding but with other sources of funding, life has been brought into one or two of our projects, and that is why you are seeing activities everywhere’, he said.
“Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is progressing, Apapa-Oshodi-Ojota-Oworonsoki Expressway Rehabilitation and Reconstruction project is on, and these are the critical roads that bind everybody, especially in Lagos, together,’’.
