OGUN STUDENTS’ UNION CALLS ON FG TO FIX COLLAPSE LAGOS-ABEOKUTA EXPRESSWAY
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By Sumayyah Olapade
The National Association of Ogun State Students appealed to the Federal Government to take urgent steps towards reconstructing the completely collapsed Lagos-Sango Ota-Abeokuta expressway.
The students particularly called on the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, to immediately activate all relevant machinery in order to guarantee that the Federal Government’s promised intervention in reconstructing the motorway occurred.
The National President of NAOSS, Kehinde Thomas, made this call on Monday in a statement made available to journalists in the state.
Thomas said, “This appeal becomes exigent in view of the horrible experience which residents, commuters, as well as other motorists are subjected to daily, especially whenever there is a downpour which usually ends the entire Sango Ota/Idiroko expressway junction till Ali Isiba Bus Stop completely impassable.”
He lamented the terrifying experience which drivers and other pedestrians had to go through in order to get to their jobs in the early hours of Monday.
“The current condition of the motorway is totally unacceptable not only to the Nigerian students who have to return to their respective institutions but also speaks volumes of the insensitivity of the Nigerian government which appeared careless about the welfare of investors whose businesses are located within the Sango Ota axis of the state,” the student leader said.
The students added that during his working visit to the state in September 2023, the Minister of Works, Umahi, gave the state governor, Dapo Abiodun, assurances about the Tinubu-led administration’s readiness to fully restore the 42-kilometer Lagos-Sango Ota-Abeokuta Motorway.
It was stated that during the visit, Umahi had committed to the federal and Ogun State governments working together to rehabilitate the motorway.
According to the Highways Development and Management Initiative strategy of the federal government, it has been in a poor shape for a long time.
Thomas stated that nothing had been done to lessen the misery of those on the road ten months after the Minister’s assurance.
He appealed to the Minister to not only remember and respect his words but also match his words with action in the interest of the entire people of the state, particularly the industries in the Ota axis which have to move in their raw materials for production.
Thomas maintained that “a quick federal government’s intervention would also go a long way towards ensuring that owners of industries, whose businesses are near comatose because of the bad condition of road in the axis would not relocate their investments away from the country”.
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