LSPWC To Reopen A Section of Ijaiye Road, Ogba After Rehabilitation
The Lagos State Public Works Corporation is to reopen a section of Ijaiye Road, Ogba stretching from Excellence Hotel roundabout to Ogba Bus Stop as it rounds off the rehabilitation work on the road before the week ends.
This was made known by the General Manager of the Agency, Tokunbo Ajanaku while speaking to journalists on the corporation’s intervention on Ijaiye road and other roads across the state.
Ajanaku said that the scope of the rehabilitation project in Ogba axis is in two phases. “The first phase which is about 428 metres starts from Excellence Hotel roundabout and terminates at Mokunolu Street junction while the second phase, about 275 metres starts from Mokunolu Street junction, all the way to Kayode Street junction”.
He also said that the intervention which features repair and desilting of drainage channels, scarification of expired asphaltic surface and laying of fresh asphalt was aimed at totally renewing the affected sections and solve the perennial flooding witnessed on the road whenever it rained.
The General Manager also noted that a similar operation is nearing completion along Eric More Road, Surulere where the Corporation is deploying interlocking paving stones to rehabilitate a failed section of the road, inward Alaka.
He said that Lagosians are to look forward to a larger scale of works being executed in the new year by his Agency as the present administration of Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Dr. Obafemi Hazmat has continued to express confidence in the capacity of the Agency to deliver road construction and rehabilitation projects beyond just routine maintenance and fixing of pot holes.
This, he added has been made possible through the integration of the activities of the Agency and the Ministry of Works & Infrastructure anchored by the
Special Adviser to the Governor on Infrastructure, Engr. Olufemi Daramola.
In the same vein, while speaking on the significance of the rehabilitation of Eric More Road, Surulere, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Works Corporation, Titilayo Cole-Osho, said that “going by the strategic nature of the road, connecting several roads within the axis, it had to receive prompt attention of the Governor who directed the corporation to intervene”
Titilayo Cole-Osho however appealed to Lagosians to continue to see road infrastructure as a critical part of their collective heritage and therefore protect Lagos roads from all forms of abuses such as burning of items on the road, indiscriminate cutting of roads to lay service pipes, dumping of refuse in drains, articulated lorries plying the roads with excessive axle load, removal of manhole covers and pouring of petrochemical products on the roads among others.
Samuel Ayetutu, fnipr; frpa
Director, Public Affairs
LSPWC.
