Ogun State Government has finally takes over the rehabilitation of Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, a major strategic road with huge economic value, whose repairs before now had been a subject of controversy between the State Government and Federal Government who had failed to fix the ever busy road.
The State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Ade Akinsanya, during on the spot commencement of the rehabilitation work , explained that the reconstruction work had been divided into five segments.
According to him, the first segment takes off from the Tollgate end of the expressway to Singer, which is a distance of 7.5kilometers, the second segment covers Singer to Ifo, third segment takes off from Ifo to Papalanto, the fourth segment is from Papalanto to Itori, while the last segment will see the rehabilitation work taking off from Itori to the end of the road at the Brewery in Abeokuta, the state capital
Akinsanya, who led a team of journalists to tour of some ongoing and completed road projects in the state said that already, contract for the first segment from the Tollgate to Singer has been awarded and work is already ongoing.
The commissioner noted that the Tollgate to Singer section of the road is the most deplorable, saying that one side of the road has been totally abandoned and can only be plied by heavy duty trucks.
He says deplorable section of the road is between Papalanto and Itori.
Akinsanya noted this the state government could not wait for the Federal Government to repair the road due to its deplorable condition.
It would be recalled that being a federal road, both the Ogun and Lagos state governments had approach the federal government to release the road for them to be repaired. But the request was rejected.
The team also inspected ongoing projects in Ogun West Senatorial District, including Ilaro to Owode Yewa and Atan-Lusada Agbara road.
The Atan-Lusada-Agbara road is 19 kilometers which has minimum of two lanes, and maximum of eight lanes in some areas.
Akinsanya disclosed that unlike the previous administration, the current road construction in the state is being done with utmost cost saving mechanism.
Consequently, he said that the Atan-Lusada- Agbara road will only have one bridge, with a new two lane bridge already under construction to complement the existing one and is about 70 percent completed.
“We are doing some rehabilitation on the old bridge by replacing old or damaged parapet, repairing some cracks with epoxy paints,” he explained.
Akinsanya said that Atan-Lusada-Agbara road is the biggest project currently going on in the state at the moment in view of the huge cost involved.
He promised the determination of the state government to deliver quality projects that will stand the test of time.
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