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…Contract has been awarded —FG
IBADAN — MOTORISTS and commuters plying Ibadan-Abeokuta roadworthy done Bakatari, Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State, person urged the Federal arsenic good arsenic Ogun and Oyo authorities governments to hole the deplorable authorities of the road.
Motorists and commuters, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, successful Ibadan, decried the concern of the road, describing driving connected it arsenic harrowing and a decease trap.
Respondents blamed the long-standing abandonment of the roadworthy by the national and the 2 acrophobic authorities governments and their agencies arsenic the crushed for the full illness of the roadworthy connecting Oyo and Ogun states.
Motorists, however, blamed the neglect of the roadworthy by the authorities for its contiguous atrocious state, urging the national and authorities governments to prevention the lives of commuters who regular ply the Ibadan-Abeokuta roadworthy corridor.
Also, immoderate residents of Omi-Adio, Aba-Nla, Lade, and Bako, which are immoderate of the towns on the Ibadan-Abeokuta axis, recounted the regular hardship experienced connected the road.
An inter-state commercialized driver, Isiaka Adigun, decried the concern of the road, saying that the information of the roadworthy astatine Lade had go truthful atrocious that motorists acquisition hardship plying it.
Adigun said: “Though it’s an aged roadworthy built successful 1978 by the erstwhile Olusegun Obasanjo regime, but presently accelerated becoming a decease trap to motorists.”
Another respondent, a commercialized motorcyclist, Mr Godfrey Sunday, said the gridlock being experienced is gradually becoming unbearable for passersby and motorists.
He said that the gridlock besides affects motorcycles, arsenic their passengers person to disembark to alteration radical assistance them successful carrying their motorcycles crossed the atrocious information to the different broadside earlier continuing connected their journey.
Also, Mr Kayode Adesokan, a civilian servant, lamented the clip wasted connected the roadworthy due to the fact that of its deplorable state.
He said that the concern adversely affects workers, traders, and concern owners connected the route, with manpower wasted connected gridlock, nary substance however aboriginal 1 goes out.
Another respondent, Mr Ganiyu Alarape, a nonmigratory of Omi-Adio, said the roadworthy was truthful atrocious that adjacent commercialized motorcyclists person accrued their fare.
On his part, the Baale of Bako town, Chief Abdulfatai Musbaudeen, said that speech from the atrocious road, commuters besides interest whenever determination is an overflow of the Jamoje Rivers anytime it rains.
The assemblage person said: “The Jamoje River is different large occupation whenever it overflows crossed the Ibadan-Abeokuta road; it prevents commuters and motorists from passing.”
Contract has been awarded —FG
When contacted, the Federal Controller of Works successful Oyo State, Mr Victor Aina, said that the Federal Government has awarded the rehabilitation of the roadworthy to KOPEK Construction Company a fewer years ago.
Aina said that efforts were ongoing to guarantee that the contractor mobilises to site, assuring motorists plying the roadworthy that enactment would soon commence connected the atrocious sections of the road.
The station Motorists, commuters groan implicit deplorable Ibadan-Abeokuta road appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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