Tayo Awodun, an engineer with the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, on Tuesday said that the agency was collaborating with the Lagos State Government to tackle flooding on Apapa Road.
Awodun told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the flooding was caused by the reclamation that was carried out on the site for displaced residents of Ijora Badia.
He added that canals and existing drains would be expanded to cater for the resultant surge and that FERMA would work a design to solve the problem once and for all.
He said: “The section that is bad, presently we have filled it up with boulders so that vehicles can still move on pending when permanent work would be done because we can’t work there until we get the water off.
“Lagos State government has decided to also create a channel.
“They have a plan of doing a new channel to direct the water off the place.
“But pending then is why we put boulders to make it motorable for road users.”