Infrastructure Development: Lagos prioritises road connectivity

 

 


 Construction on Old Ojo Road in Lagos State

Aderonke Ojediran


Connectivity


By Aderonke Ojediran


Lagos, June 12, 2024 (NAN) In a bid to boost intermodal transport system, Lagos State Government is determined to connect roads to jetties across the state.


 


The Special Adviser to the Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Infrastructure, Mr Olufemi Daramola, said this when he led other officials to inspect roads and other strategic projects on Lagos-Badagry Expressway and Old Ojo Road.


 


Other roads inspected include Mumuni Adio Road, Buba Maruwa Road, Navy Town-Ijegun-Egba Road and Orile-Irede-Iyana Iba Interchange.


 


“At present, we are on Old Ojo Road, it is a four-kilometre road.


 


” The progress of work is very commendable. We have the contractor here, Messrs CCECC, and we envisage that in another two months, we will deliver this project. Mr governor will deliver this to residents of Lagos.


 


” It has also offered us an opportunity to look at other road projects in the axis. We have been able to look at the Buba Maruwa Road which is a 3.2km road that takes us to Ijegun-Egba Jetty,” he said.


 


Daramola said the inspection tour was to check the level of progress and have more detailed information about challenges to some of the projects.


 


He said that blockage of drains  was identified at  the Orile section of the Lagos Badagry Expressway.


 


“We will link up with our counterparts in the Office of Drainage Services to prevent flooding in the axis,” he said.


 


On how the network of roads will impact the state, Daramola said the Lagos-Badagry Expressway and Old Ojo Road would be  alternative roads while the Navy Town Road,  Mumuni-Adio Road and Orile-Irede-Iyana Iba Interchange would link all the tank farms.


 


He said the road projects, when completed, would improve traffic and make  distribution of petroleum products from tank farms faster.


 


” The jetty is over there, we have products that we have to move from one place to the other,” he said. (NAN)(www.nannews.ng)


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Edited by Ijeoma Popoola

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