Street traders, touts frustrating Lagos-Abeokuta road repair – FG

The Federal Government says the activities of street traders, touts and state government agencies extorting money on the Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta Road are frustrating the ongoing rehabilitation of the roads awarded to Julius Berger Nigeria, funded through SUKUK intervention funds.
The Federal Controller of Works, Ogun State, Umar Bakare, disclosed this to journalists after the inspection of the ongoing rehabilitation and reconstruction of roads in the axis.
He said the Federal Government remained committed to the rehabilitation of the roads and make them motorable.
The Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway is a 7,740-kilometre long expressway connecting Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State and Ikeja the capital of Lagos, the nation’s commercial nerve centre.
Bakare also said the people were agitated because of the deplorable nature of the Ota-Idiroko road.
He said the Federal Ministry of Works was ready to rehabilitate the entire stretch of the roads via tax credit scheme.
He said, “We all know that the activities of traders, market activities all fall within the purvey of state and local government.
“What we have done over the time is have discussions with the state government on it for them to control the activities of these traders on our roads. They are the ones that have the agencies that do enforcement to remove these people from the roads.”