Lagos – Some of the motorists plying the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway on Monday in Lagos appealed to the Federal Government to rehabilitate the Idi-Oro Bus Stop portion claimed to be in a terrible condition.
They also urged the government to repair the damaged road-shoulder at Ile-Zik Bus Stop in Agege area of the same expressway.
A NAN correspondent who took a trip on the road observed that the road shoulder had been flooded following recent downpour.
The correspondent also observed gullies on the Lagos- bound carriageway of the expressway and flooded craters on the Abeokuta-bound carriageway along the Idi Oro Bus Stop on the highway.
The craters, aided by blocked drains, had caused flood on the highway creating opportunities for social miscreants to extort motorists, the correspondent noted.
Motorists and pedestrians who spoke to NAN appealed to the Federal Government to quickly repair the bad portions as well as the damaged road shoulders to ease traffic gridlock.
A truck driver, Mr Saheed Afolabi, said repairing the bad portions would the reduce suffering and accidents on the road.
“We have been suffering like this for more than three weeks, the government should please help us, this suffering is too much,’’ he said.
An engineer, Mr Olarotimi Ogunmodede, appealed to both the Federal Government and the Mushin Local Government to join hands in fixing the craters on the Mushin end to ease gridlock.
A motorist, Mr Gbenga Adeboye, urged government to fill the gullies on the Mushin end and the road shoulder along Ile-Zik Bus Stop saying the highway was an interstate road.
A commercial tricyclist, Mr John Samuel, said that the Mushin portion made navigation difficult for tricycle owners.
“Most of us cannot cross this place anymore and this road has been like this for almost a month,’’ he said.
A street urchin, Ahmed Abdulsalam, said that youths filing the craters with gravels had made the Mushin end of the road was still motorable.
“Vehicles can still move on the road because we have been working here.
“Last week, we filled these craters with two tipper loads of stone and we guided the vehicles through and accepted whatever they offered us.
“We are not extorting money from anybody but offering service until government repairs the road,’’ he said.
Also, Mr Rotimi Bamidele, a freight forwarder, appealed for an urgent rehabilitation of the road to stop containers from falling while meandering through the bad portions. (NAN)
