Life is about to resume on the popular Mile-2-Badagry express-way as the Lagos State Government on Tuesday, July 2nd 2019 flagged off the resumption of the construction of the ten-lane Lagos-Badagry Express-way ten years after its commencement.
Present at the flag-off was the Deputy Governor of the state, Dr Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, Executive chairman Amuwo-Odofin, Vakentine Buraimoh, House of Assembly representative Amuwo-Odofin constituency 1, Hon Mojisola Macaulay, Chairman of Oriade LCDA , representatives of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), and many others.
Performing the flag-off,Hamzat stated that the return to the road construction not only marks the fulfilment of a promise made during a recent visit on June 2, 2019, to the people of the State by the Sanwo-Olu Administration but is also designed to bring relief to commuters who experience hardship daily on the road.
He further stated that the project covers specifically the Agboju to Trade Fair segment as well as the rehabilitation of the Eric Moore – Mile 2 stretch.
Hamzat said, “We must obey the law, citizens co-operation is critical to what successes we will be able to record during this tenure. We must also monitor the project and report progress and observations to us.”
Hamzat further assured that the cooperation of the Federal Government as both the State and Federal Agencies will be present along the road up to the Seme border.
“I want to appeal to all of us to cooperate with the contractors and obey traffic laws. Breaking the law because the road is bad is not acceptable” He stressed
He explained that Lagos State is handling Eric Moore to Agboju while FERMA will do four-lane maintenance to Agbara while the Federal Government has awarded Agbara to Seme as a six-lane Highway.
According to the Deputy Governor, the work will commence from Agboju to trade fair and should be completed before the end of the year, while palliative measures will be carried out from trade fair to Okokomaiko.
He said the State Government will deploy Task-force to clean up the area and ensure a free flow of traffic.
It should be recalled that the notion to expand the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, a major gateway connecting Nigeria and other neighbouring West African countries was conceptualized in 2009 by the Babatunde Raji Fashola administration to ease traffic in the region and upgrade the infrastructure from four (4) lane into ten (10) lane dual carriage.