The lawmaker representing Ibadan North East/South East Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Hon. Adedapo Lam-Adesina, has passionately appealed to the Federal Road Maintenance Agency, which is the relevant government agency saddled with the repairs and overview support of federal roads within the states all over the federation, and Reynolds Construction Company to please save the looming danger on the Ibadan axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, which are accident prone.
Lam-Adesina made this known at a press conference at his campaign office.
He said: “Very recently, I embarked on a thank you and consultative tour of all communities within my constituency as part of the electioneering promises I made to regularly meet with them to discuss the progress and development of every community.
“As such, like every other Nigerian, we made use of the expressroad and were locked in traffic gridlock due to the bad portion at the Boluwaji-Sanyo axis of Ibadan, where deep gully erosion is about cutting the road into two thereby becoming an eyesore to the country.
“My interaction with our people (Ward 11 of Ibadan South East Local Government) resident in these areas shows a complete neglect from FERMA despite several appeals and letters written, decried the inability of the agency to come to their rescue.
“I also want to use this medium to call on RCC, the contractor handling the expansion of the Oyo State axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, to urgently repair the deadly potholes within Ibadan, make it motorable and save road users from the agony of wasting their precious time in traffic snarl.”
Lam-Adesina equally appealed to residents around Soka, Sanyo and Boluwaji areas and road users to exercise patience while driving, adding: “We expect FERMA to rehabilitate the bad portions within the shortest period of time as we draw the attention of the agency to the socio-economic challenges posed to the nation by the incessant traffic jam caused by the damaged section of the road.
“Let FERMA see this appeal as a wake-up call to their constitutional responsibilities that requires palliative and proactive measures to forestall imminent danger, which I personally do not pray or hope for.”
Lam-Adesina used the media parley to assure his constituents that hope is underway, stressing that very shortly he will begin to implement all his campaign promises that will bring about the long desired change to the Federal Constituency.
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