Ogun takes over Sango Ota-Abeokuta road repairs
Succour is coming the way of commuters on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway as the Ogun State government has commenced rehabilitation work on the ever-busy road.
The intervention of the Ogun State government was coming as a response to the delay by the Federal Government to arrest the degeneration of the road.
The rehabilitation work has been divided into five segments. The first segment takes off from the Tollgate end of the expressway to Singer, which is a distance of 7.5kilometers.
According to the state Commissioner for Works, Ade Akinsanya, the second segment covers Singer to Ifo, the third segment takes off from Ifo to Papalanto, the fourth segment is from Papalanto to Itori, while the last segment will see the rehabilitation work taking off from Itori to the end of the road at the Brewery.
Akinsanya, who led a team of journalists on a tour of some ongoing and completed road projects in the state, said the contract for the first segment from the Tollgate to Singer had been awarded, and work was ongoing.
The commissioner noted that the Tollgate to Singer section of the road is the most deplorable, noting that one side of the road has been totally abandoned and can only be plied by heavy-duty trucks.
Akinsanya noted this the state government could not wait for the Federal Government to repair the road due to its deplorable condition.