…….32 kilometre Ota road now divided into six phases for completion
…Road now scaled down to ensure early completion
…..Construction of 19.5km Lusada-Agbara road easily the biggest capital intensive road in the state also in top gear
..Work also on – going on toll gate end of Ota -Abeokuta express road.
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Governor Dapo Abiodun has kept his promise to flag off the reconstruction of the abandoned 32 kilometre Ota -Ijoko , Agbado and Akute road with the commencement of work by new construction giant,Craneburg which has won the contract for the road rehabilitation .
Craneburg Construction company, it will be recalled is handling major civil engineering works in Lagos and other states.
This is just as work has also progressed significantly on the 19.5km Lusada-Agbara road housing the biggest industrial estate in the country.
For now, the first phase of the reconstruction of the Ota- Akute road has started from two ends…Ota axis which extends to the portion after Ijoko flyover and the phase two which started from Alagbole to terminate at Mr Biggs end of the road towards Akute.
Indeed, senior Editors of leading newspapers and online publications in the country took a two- day tour of the road and net the contractor working with the expatriate staff to speed up work.
The Ota- Akute road which harbours several communities have been abandoned for over ten years since the last administration of Governor Ibikunle Amosun,which awarded the then contract to a Chinese company, Chinese Civil and Electrical Engineering Construction Company which commenced work after demolishing hundreds of houses which a large number of owners yet to be compensated.
As a result of the abandonment of the road by the previous government barely a year to beginning of work,the road has brought untold hardship to citizens leading due to in assesibility of the road especially during the rainy season.
In a telephone interview,Ogun state governor,Dapo Abiodun,said the humongous debt inherited from his predecessor has been a clog in the wheel of his administration effort to improve the life of citizens.
On the completion period,he said that he has been able to secure funding towards bringing relief to millions of residents of the area and some other parts of the state suffering from utter neglect in road infrastructure without which development could not come.
Governor Abiodun also explained his resolve to fix the Lusada Agbara road which leads to the biggest industrial complex in the country and source of huge tax revenue and employer of labour to it’s citizens.
He wonder why such roads could be abandoned considering it’s economic importance to the state and promised to mobilize scarce resource towards early completion of the two roads among many others in the three senatorial zones of the state.
In an interview with Editors ,the state Works Commissioner,
Engineer Ade Akinsanya, explained that the best style of constructing roads worldwide would be deployed towards the completion of the two strategic roads.
According to Akinsanya, while the total reconstruction of the two axis of the Ota- Akute road is on,palliative would go on simultaneously on the four other portions on which contracted have been awarded and money released for the new construction company.
The essence of palliative on the remaining four sections-2-5 on the Ota- Akute road is to bring succour to the citizens pending the completion of the two axis after which realm construction will commence on the remaining four sections road .
Speaking further,Akinsanya said that both bearing and wearing asphalt will be laid on all roads now being constructed all over the state to prolong their life span adding that most of the road .
On the Ota- Abeokuta express road,he said the road has been divided into five phases .
The first phase which stretch over 7.5kilometres from Toll Gate to Singer, second phase, Ifo to Papalanto,third phase,Papalanto -Itori and Itori to Abeokuta .
Akinsanya said that full time supervision is on to ensure the state benefit from experience of good roads as was being experienced in Lagos and other parts of the country.
