Gridlock: Lekki will not become another Apapa, Gov’s aide assures

Lagos State Government, has assured that Lekki volition not crook retired to beryllium different gridlock-prone country similar Apapa successful the future. Mr Olufemi Daramola, Special Adviser (SA) to Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, connected Infrastructure, gave the assurance connected Friday, during the 2024 Ministerial Press Briefing held astatine the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos.

The ministerial briefings, which began connected April 23, volition tally until May 28, arsenic portion of activities lined up to commemoration Sanwo-Olu’s archetypal twelvemonth successful bureau for the 2nd term.

“With the accelerated improvement of infrastructure astatine the Lekki Free Trade Zone and its environs, authorities volition guarantee proviso of capable infrastructure to guarantee that Lekki does not crook retired to beryllium different gridlock-prone country similar Apapa successful the future,” helium said.He said the absorption connected Lekki successful presumption of infrastructural improvement was to guarantee that it was prepared for the influx of activities that would instrumentality spot successful the adjacent future.

“This medication is not selective; we’re nevertheless strategic. We person the Deep Sea Port, Dangote Refinery and the Airport. There’s request for large infrastructure to beryllium enactment successful place.

“We request to beryllium proactive, we don’t privation to person different Apapa, we request to find alternate routes to trim question clip connected that road. So, this is not the substance of people A oregon people B locations.

“We person to determination astatine a accelerated gait due to the fact that of each the ongoing projects successful this axis. This is not to accidental different areas are neglected,

“We onslaught a balance, each nonmigratory of Lagos State deserves the best,” helium said.Daramola said that projects were supervised round-the-clock crossed the authorities arsenic portion of the governor’s imaginativeness of making Lagos a Mega State done a accordant task improvement drive.He said this was aimed astatine positioning the State arsenic an economical destination with functional infrastructure.

“Some of the projects ongoing to execute specified feat see the Lagos Lagoon Highway, the 7th axial road, the operation of Taiwo Street, by China Town, Ojota, the operation of Shasha Link span portion of Union Road, Shomorin, Mortune Avenue, Adama Dania/Mohammed/behind Airport Roads.

“Others are the operation of Ayetoro, Ashipa, Parent’s Choice Ayobo-Igando Link Bridge, Alhaji Shekoni Street, Construction of Ijegun-Ijeagemo Road to nexus LASU Iba Road.

“Also, operation of Okota/Apapa-Oshodi Expressway [Lord’s Chosen Road with nexus Bridge], the operation of the Awodi-Ora, Olodi roadworthy with nexus Bridge, among others.

“Since the inception of Gov. Sanwo-Olu and his Deputy, Obafemi Hamzat, the Public Works Corporation has intervened successful a full of 2,702 roads, covering astir 431.32 km utilizing an mean carriageway width of 7.3m,” Daramola said.

He said helium and his squad had successfully completed each inherited projects and embarked connected caller strategical projects that would basal the trial of clip successful spite of the planetary economical downturn.

“Furthermore, this medication has continued to deliberately put successful infrastructure arsenic a captious improvement operator of the state’s economy, and on the enactment providing hundreds of jobs for residents arsenic good arsenic bringing contiguous and impactful succour to commuters,” Daramola said.

He announced the completion of 172 roads translating to 177.93km and further execution of 253 projects which connected completion would construe to 298.22km astatine the extremity of the medication arsenic a gangly stride that would springiness Lagosians existent dividends of democracy.

“It is besides important to enactment that we person completed 2.510Km span (2510m) portion 3.13km (3132 meters) is presently ongoing astatine antithetic parts of the state,”he said.

Similarly, the Special Assistant connected Works, Dr Oluyinka Adekunle, noted that during the inauguration of Sanwo-Olu-led administration, authorities promised to implicit each inherited projects and embark connected caller ones.He said that was the bedrock of the ‘T.H.E.M.E.S Plus Agenda.

“Our authorities has continued to deliberately put successful gathering infrastructure arsenic 1 of the platforms utilized for discharging the societal declaration we signed with Lagosians.

“Through our projects, we person continuously provided jobs for hundreds of our radical and provided impactful economical succour to those surviving successful the State.

“We are besides arsenic alert of the attendant interaction of gathering resilient infrastructure, which volition not lone make a beardown economical basal for the productivity of our people, but volition besides summation employment and foster innovation,”he said.

According to him, 1 of the important methods adopted to span the infrastructure spread successful the authorities is to deliberately amended some the attraction and absorption of existing infrastructure assets successful a mode that would sphere the prime of the assets.

“To execute this, we person enactment successful spot policies and structures for the renovation and absorption of the existing portfolio of our infrastructure assets.

“Government emphasises a two-pronged attack by ensuring regular attraction of existing assets to guarantee that infrastructure run arsenic initially intended successful a long-lasting mode and the continuous rehabilitation and upgrade of caller iconic infrastructure,”he said.