FLOOD: MOTORISTS STRANDED FOR HOURS ALONG SAGAMU-IKORODU ROAD


This is not the best of time for motorists and commuters plying the terribly dilapidated Sagamu-Ikorodu road, currently undergoing rehabilitation by the federal government.

While the Honourable Minister for Works, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola had warned earlier of some inconveniences that will come as a result of the construction work on the road, what motorists and commuters experienced on the road, on Wednesday, 12th June was hellish and very avoidable, if Arab Contractors, handling the road project had done the needful.

It would be recalled that Mr Fashola directed the contractors to carry out palliative measures on failed portion of the road, to make the road motorable, while the construction work is ongoing, the contractors are yet to fully obey this ministerial directive as many the terribly bad portions of the road, on the Ogun State axis, by NNPC Mosimi depot has gone from bad to worse in recent times.  

The Likosi and Arigbabuwo area of the road is the worst portion of the entire …km stretch of the road and has not received adequate palliative attention from Messers Arab Contractors.

A Remo Times correspondence who was caught up in the flood reports that the heavy downpour which fell for barely one hour flooded the whole road, such that several cars, buses and even articulated lorries and broke down on the bad road.  

He added that both Ikorodu and Sagamu bound commuters and motorists were stranded at the spot for several hours. While some motorists had to abandon their broken down vehicles in the flood, few lucky ones who managed to escape the flood had to turn back to pass through the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, through Simawa, just to access Ikorodu, a journey of barely 30 minutes from the spot.


Some of the commuters who spoke to Remo Times pleaded with the federal government and the Arab Contractors to as a matter of urgency carry out palliative measures on the bad spots around NNPC, Mosimi and Arigbabu areas along the Sagamu-Ikorodu road axis.

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