On Saturday, the Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, said that he had obtained a guarantee from the contractors working on the Kara bridge end of the Lagos-Ibadan motorway that the section of road will be finished and accessible to traffic by Sunday, April 30, 2023, at the latest.
Abiodun revealed that he obtained the contractor’s promise on Friday through the Federal Comptroller of Works after conducting an on-the-spot analysis of the root cause of the ongoing traffic congestion that had been upsetting the public.
He said, “On Friday, I stopped at Kara bridge and made a piece of my mind known to the contractor handling the Kara end of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, my stopping there was with respect to the very poor traffic management and the resulting traffic gridlock subjecting innocent travellers to untold hardship.
“I am glad to note that I was able to extract from the firm handling the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway through the Federal Comptroller of Works a commitment to complete the construction causing the bottleneck on or before Sunday 30th April and open the road to allow free flow of traffic both outbound and inbound Lagos.”
However, Abiodun expressed confidence that the contracting company’s commitment would go a long way towards ensuring that the ongoing gridlock that affects drivers on the Lagos-Ibadan motorway is a thing of the past.
As the road is about to be opened to vehicular traffic, he pleaded with those using it to exercise some patience with the government.
Former President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan officially opened the road in 2013 at a cost of N167 billion and under a contract with Reynolds Construction Company Limited and Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, respectively.
The road was supposed to be opened before President Muhammadu Buhari, took office.
