It came as cheering news that the two contractors engaged by the federal government to reconstruct the 167-kilometre Lagos/Ibadan Expressway have moved their equipment back to site to resume work.
The Federal Government under former President Goodluck Jonathan had hired Julius Berger PLC to reconstruct and widen the portion from the Shagamu Exchange in Ogun State to the Lagos metropolis. RCC was awarded the Shagamu to Ibadan section. A lot of progress was made, and hopes were high among the road users that the traffic nightmares and frequent accidents experienced on the nation’s busiest highway would soon be a thing of the past.
Work, however, came to a screeching halt after the change of government in May this year, fuelling fears of another abandonment of work such as was experienced when the federal government handed the road over to a local private concessionaire, Bi-Courtney.
We commend the Buhari regime for nudging the contractors back to site on the Lagos-Ibadan Express way and hope that work will resume on all other temporarily abandoned federal highways as soon as possible.