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By: Manoah kikekon
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| 120 Miters road construction in Owode-Apa Badagry |
The contractor working on Owode-Apa road in Badagry, Lagos State has recalled workers back to site after the report made by News Peddlers on Wednesday.
It was earlier reported that the federal government of Nigeria plans to commission an uncompleted Owode-Apa road in Badagry, Lagos State.
The contractor who told the workers that the work had ended as of yesterday evening later called the workers back on site, that the residents of the area have gotten information on their plans.
A resident who spoke with News Peddlers said he saw the workers moving equipment from the site yesterday, and commuters were raining curses on them, but he noticed that after some time the equipment was moved back on site.
The 120-meter construction that is ongoing was all the contractor intended to lay asphalt on at midnight today and would end the construction. This is contrary to what Hon. Sesi Whingan, the House of Representatives Member representing Badagry federal constituency, said in a stakeholder meeting held at ASCON in 2024, that the road will be re-awarded and that it is going to be a concrete road.
The border road is about 15 kilometers to the border of Benin Republic, which was awarded nine years ago with the sum of N4 billion, and nothing was done on the road until 2022 to 2023, when about one kilometer was constructed from Gbaji to Afowo, before it was abandoned for over a year.
The 120 meters of construction ongoing was commenced Saturday, February 15th, 2025, and the Federal Ministry of Works visits the site, taking videos and photos to document the ongoing project, which is expected to be commissioned next week.
A top government official who spoke with News Peddlers said, "Some undisclosed amounts of funds were released for the commencement of the project recently. That was what led to what people are seeing and that the road wouldn't be commissioned anytime soon. It's just that they will abandon it again, and that the pictures and videos that they saw them take were just to prove that the project was done."
A concerned indigen who spoke with News Peddlers on phone said, "How can they commission a road like that, a road that half of it is not yet constructed, even the constructed parts do not have drainage or street lights? I want to believe all they are doing is the usual play they have been playing on that road over time.
"But this is unfair to the good people of Badagry, the suffering on that road is too much." He pleaded with relevant stakeholders to rise up for Badagry people this time.