Sanwo-Olu tasks Contractors on Lagos-Badagry Expressway

Chinazor Megbolu

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu had read riot act to contractors, China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC), during an inspection tour of the Trade Fair section of the road.

Sanwo-Olu said this in Lagos at the weekend and ordered them to finish it in a period of 3 months.

Sanwo-Olu explained that the Trade Fair to LASU Gate portion, which is a distance of 4.7 kilometres was the next phase of construction to be carried out on the road.

“The work would pass through Volkswagen, the military barracks, then from LASU-Iba junction to LASU Gate,” he said.

He, however, posited the contractor had promised to complete it in 9 months. According to him; “but we are pushing for delivery within seven to eight months.

This is because we are in the dry season, we want them to push all of the heavy works around drainage, and keep the right of way safe, such that by the middle of the year, they should be able to get to front of LASU Gate’’.

“It was the first week in July, we all came here on this road and we gave a commitment that by December, this part of Lagos-Badagry Expressway would have been completed and opened to traffic, we have kept to our word, this is exactly six months.

“If you recall in July, nobody could stand where we are standing right now, we could not access this part of the route at all. But we have been able to push it from Maza-Maza towards Agboju to Alakija; now we have passed Trade Fair, so we have kept faith with our promise and our contractors have also measured up to work”.