Nigeria’s
Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed on Wednesday, May 9, explained why the
federal government decided to expand the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Vanguard
reports.
The
minister who was on an inspection of government infrastructural projects across
Nigeria inspected two sections of the expressway: from Lagos to Shagamu
Interchange and Shagamu Interchange to Ibadan.
Mohammed
said: “Some 70% of the traffic coming to Lagos is from the Lagos-Shagamu
Exchange, which explains why the Lagos-Shagamu comprises three lanes on each
side while the Shagamu-Ibadan comprises two lanes on each side."
Speaking
during his tour, Mohammed was briefed by the project engineer, Noar Narkisis
who revealed that work on the expressway has reached 58.27% completion.
Narkisis,
an engineer with the Reynolds Construction Company (RCC) said there is a
current expansion and reinforcement of the road. He said the RCC was also
carrying out maintenance of the existing carriageway to ensure a free flow of
traffic and would complete the asphalt-laying phase of the entire 84-kilometer
sector before the end of the year. The engineer told the minister that 4,000
jobs had been created as a result of the highway construction on Section II
alone.
Also
speaking, the division manager of Julius Berger and the contractor handling
Section One from Lagos to the Shagamu Interchange Wolfgang Losesser said, 17
kilometres of the 3-lane, 43-kilometre road had been completed.
“From
Shagamu driving toward here, the first 17 kilometres on the Lagos bound side
has already been completed. Then you realize that it has gone back to the old
two lanes. Here we are just doing some palliative work because the rainy season
is coming and we are working on the drainage,” Losesser said.
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