By Our Reporter
Residents of Agbado,Adiyan, Oke -Aro and suburbs are in double pains.
The communities are all part of the many settlements that straddled the abandoned stretch of Ijoko,Agbado, Akute Alagbole roads.
Year in ,year out they bore pains of neglect by the Ogun state government which has demolished houses of many over twelve years ago without compensation.
Not only that the roads for which their houses were demolished have been abandoned making commuting within and outside very stressful.
Most businesses demolished to guve way for road expamsion have also packed off throwing many into penury.
They also share the tragedy of Lagos Water Corporation which constructed its biggest water project in Adiyan,one of the Communities in the area with no single drop of water for residents .
The water now being extended by Salini Nigeria Company-the contractor executing the project, is for far away residents of Lagos living in Ikeja,Ikoyi and other highbrow areas of the metropolis.
To make matters worst,a stretch of land about 400 meters in length is now home to corpses of unknown citizens.
Surprisingly, the land on which unknown people dump corpses situated along the Oke- Aro Agbado road is within the perimeter fence of the Corporation.
It has become abode of dangerous reptiles, undesirable elements and cultists who dumped bodies of their victims in the unkempt bush posing health hazards to residential houses along the now abandoned road.
Alhaji Abdul Razak, a Surveyor and community leader in the area told Newdawnngr.com he has had to spend money to remove corpses of unknown persons dumped in front of his house opposite the now abandoned parcel of land which belongs to the Water Corporation.
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The land in question it will be recalled was given out to CSECC-the Chinese company handling the Ijoko-Agbado road construction over a decade ago as a Yard for keeping its equipments.
He confirmed that as soon as the contract was terminated by the new government in 2019, the company remove its equipments.
Hopes that the announcement that the state government has resumed work on the road was dimmed last week as the new contractor,Messrs Craneburg has since left site.
He said residents are now appealing to Lagos State Government to get the Water Corporation to clear the abandoned yard which has been turned into a den of cultists .
Ironically, the yard is a stone throw to the abandoned Agbado flyover which itself have been a den of undesirable elements dispossesing residents and pedestrians of their valuables at night.
This is calling on both Ogun and Lagos State governments to do something to safe lives and properties.
