The Sango-Ota route on the Lagos–Abeokuta expressway will be completely rebuilt by December, according to the Ogun State Government.
However, the government denied the claim that its recently approved road project was done to win support from the people for the state governor Dapo Abiodun’s bid for a second term.
The 32km Ijoko/Sango/Agbado roads reconstruction was approved on Monday, according to the state administration.
Alagbole, Akute-Agbado crossing was reportedly part of the 32-kilometer route, according to the government.
Addressing journalists on Wednesday, the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Waheed Odusile, and his counterpart in the ministry of works and infrastructure, Ade Akinsanya, said the new road approval was prioritised due to the deplorable condition of the road and challenges confronting motorists.
Akinsanya said contractors have already been mobilised to the site.
He said the construction of the road which connects Sango-Ijoko-Agbado-Akute-
He added that the Mowe-Ofada Road, awarded in 2014 by the past government and abandoned, would be reconstructed and expanded with the drainage system.
Akinsanya said work will commence simultaneously on the 7.5km Singer to tollgate due to its deplorable condition and difficulty for motorists to ply.
He added that the 7.7km Toll Gate to Singer will be sectional rehabilitation while palliative will be done on other sections of the road to Brewery in Abeokuta.
Akinsanya explained that initial work will be done on the 8.5km Sango end and 1.5km on Lagos/Ogun end.
He said, “The road projects on the Lagos-Abeokuta road will be completed by December. We are taking it phase by phase. Others will be done .”
In his remarks, Odusile said the government decided to take up the road projects since the federal government refused to come to the rescue.
He added that, despite the dwindling income from the Federation Account Allocation Committee which he said affected the current administration’s physical projects, Governor Abiodun’s administration had continued to improve on the state’s Internally Generated Revenue.
He said, “The dwindling FAAC is taking a toll on our administration. Without inflicting pain on our people we have been increasing our target to N100bn.
“We are expecting FG’s reaction on Singer/ Tollgate. So, we are not waiting if help is not coming from Abuja, we have to help ourselves.
“The road we are focusing on now are FG roads that we have made efforts in the past to fix. More than four times, Dapo went to Abuja with the Minister of Works. It is not about the second term, we have been doing roads.
“What government has been doing is to use FAAC to take care of salaries and recurrent expenditures and dedicate our IGR to capital expenditures.”
