FG will complete Lagos-Ibadan expressway in 2022 – Fashola

Less than 40 per cent of the ongoing reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway is left to be done, Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said.

He stated this on Sunday during an interview on Bond FM and restated that the road project would be completed in the first quarter of 2022.

Fashola specifically said 80 kilometres of the 127-kilometre road had been done, adding that the delay in the completion of the project was caused by the government’s inability to shut down the bridge totally.

He said, “As we speak, 80km has been completed. Some of the parts of the road used today have been completed.

“We cannot shut the road totally. The number of vehicles passing the road is not less than 40,000. We can’t shut Lagos-Ibadan road like that. The road should be completed in 2022. The construction will end in 2022.

“The Third Mainland Bridge is faster because we had the opportunity of shutting it down totally.”

The reconstruction/rehabilitation of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway began in 2013 and was awarded to two firms.

Julius Berger is constructing section one, which stretches from Ojota in Lagos to Sagamu Interchange, while the RCC is working from the Sagamu Interchange to Ibadan.

The minister urged all the road users to be patient with the government.