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Lagos-Ibadan Expressway death trap for pedestrians, Lawmaker tells govt

by Ebor Cletus Ralph Jr

Tolulope Akande-Sadipe, an APC legislator who represents the Oluyole Federal Constituency, has urged the federal government to build pedestrian bridges immediately along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in the city of Ibadan, Oyo State.

After presenting a copy of a petition from Concerned Youth for Welfarism to the house at plenary on Wednesday, December 28, 2022, Akande-Sadipe announced this on Friday.
She stated that the Federal Government should immediately build pedestrian bridges at five points on the motorway in order to save lives and enhance human economic exchanges.

According to Rep. Akande-Sadipe, Nigeria’s population expansion and economic development call for investments in roads, trains, aviation, shipping, and inland waterways to boost the country’s transportation infrastructure.

She added that the population increase had spilled into some parts of Ibadan such that there was a major need to cross the highway for access to schools, homes, places of employment, markets among others.

However, the representative of the Oluyole Federal Constituency stated that Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is essential for successful highway development planning.

If an EIA had been completed, according to her, deaths that are blamed on the current condition of the road could have been avoided.

She added that the parties who should be acting authoritatively to save lives were ignoring the persistent push for the pedestrian bridges.

“I am convinced that there is a need to construct pedestrian bridges along this expressway to save lives, reduce sufferings of the people, improve economic interactions from both sides of the expressway and so on”, she said.

She opined that the ongoing construction on the expressway had become a potential death trap, saying “the ongoing construction of Lagos –Ibadan expressway does not make any arrangement for pedestrian bridges despite the safety implications”.

Akande-Sadipe therefore appealed to the Federal Government and the leadership of the House of Representatives to ensure immediate construction of pedestrian bridges along Technical University; Toll Gate, Ibadan; Fẹ́lẹ̀lẹ̀, Ìbàdàn; Sókà, Ìbàdàn; Sanyo, Ìbàdàn; Bólúwají, Ìbàdàn; Academy; and Eléruku.

She also called for construction of two bridges between Muslim and Ọlọ́hun-Ṣògo, Ìbàdàn; two Bridges between Ọlọ́hun-Ṣògo and Ọ̀rẹ́-Méjì Bridges; Three Bridges between Ọ̀rẹ́-Méjì and Ìwó Road; Three Bridges between Ìwó Road and General Gas’ bridge; Five Bridges between General Gas and Ọ̀jọ́ọ.

In her words, “I urge the House to, as a matter of urgency call on the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing to ensure it either compels the contractor to commence the construction of pedestrian bridges at the noted locations if already in the current scope of work, or to use any emergency means to effect a variation on the existing contract to accommodate same”.

She also urged the minister and the Committee on Works to urgently intervene.

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