Sanwo-olu implores FG to fund Lagos-Badagry Expressway

 Sanwo-olu implores FG to fund Lagos-Badagry Expressway

By Modupe Shodeinde

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday, implored the Federal Government to provide adequate funding for the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, saying it is an international gateway.
Speaking while receiving the House of Representatives Committee on Works led by its chairman, Hon. Abubakar Kabir Abubakar during a courtesy visit at the Lagos House, Ikeja, the governor said urgent action should be taken to work on the Otedola Bridge area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, to prevent regular accidents on the axis.
He added that the Lagos-Badagry Expressway was not fully fixed in spite of being an international gateway into five neighbouring countries.
He said, “Lagos-Badagry expressway is one that I am aware of that doesn’t have sufficient funding. This is an international gateway. We heard that Ghana, Republic of Benin and Togo have done their own; it is trans West Africa corridor which five countries pass through. But it is only the Nigerian part of it that has not been fully fixed, which is from Seme border into Lagos and to the port.”
Sanwo-olu stated that the Lagos State government on its own has commenced with the construction, already worked on 18 kilometres of the highway.
“We have been expecting the Federal Government and the Federal Ministry of Works to push it and take it to Badagry. Our desire is for them to make it a 10-lanes highway. We are building for the future and we can put a rail in the middle of the corridor. When we are building for a future, we should not be scared. It is an international road and it has the capacity to take a high level of traffic. That is one place we believe you will look into.” he added.

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