That the Lagos-Badagry is in a terrible bad condition is no longer news, however, what is very disturbing is the harrowing experience that commuters along the corridor go through everyday as a result of the slow pace of work by the China Civil Engineering & Construction Company (CCECC).
In response to several lamentations of road users plying this ECOWAS corridor, the Lagos state government recently ordered the CCECC to return to site that will see the company resume the 10 lane integrated intermodal transport road network.
The mandate by the Lagos State government preceding several visitations by Obafemi Hamzat, the current deputy governor to the project site long neglected by the previous administration of former governor Akinwunmi Ambode came as a relief to many Lagosians, but it seems, that excitement that greeted the directive of the new administration is fading away as a result of the slow approach to work by the contractors.
Pat Ginika, a trader at Lagos Island market and resident at Topo, Badagry and regular user of the corridor wondered why, the CCECC is not moving at a faster pace especially at the thickly congested Under Bridge of ASPAMDA International market.
In expressing her concern, she wondered why vehicular density and human traffic along the axis will be increasing at geometric progression while the construction work will be moving at arithmetic progression.
MIKE OCHONMA
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