PHOTO: Governor Ambode finally get the nod to re-construct Oshodi-airport road



After years of neglect and politicking of the ever busy Lagos Oshodi-airport road, the Presidency has finally given the go-ahead to the Lagos state government, to reconstruct the road...with its own resources...

The Federal government through the Acting President, Professor Osinbajo stepped in to give the final approval, overriding the Ministry of Works on their reluctant and in what some people termed 'frustration' to allow the Lagos state Government embark on a reconstruction of the dilapidated road...

While making the announcement, during the  Lagos @50 celebration, the  state governor expressing his joy on the news, said:


 “We are very appreciative of the good gesture of His Excellency, the Acting President for acceding to our request which is not only very timely but a very heartwarming one. Posterity will never forget this genuine developmental action”,

“The road linking Oshodi to the International Airport, you would all agree with me is a national embarrassment. In the spirit of the regeneration and urbanisation that this administration has set out to achieve...

we believe strongly that the image that is exhumed by the decadence of that road must be repaired and we took it upon ourselves to appropriate the 2017 budget that the House of Assembly should approve the total reconstruction of the Airport Road from Oshodi to the International Airport.

“The State currently has a design of 10 lanes to come from Oshodi to the International Airport with interchange and flyover that would drop you towards the Local Airport. 

The contractor is already set to go and everything as I said has been completed and we already have the cash, but alas we are having challenges with the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing. This is a Federal and not a State road. The Federal Ministry of Works believes that they should do the road, but they have not been able to do it all these years past.”

“I just want to appeal to the Federal Ministry of Works, to let go or reimburse us with whatever it is that they are owing us and even if they are not willing to pay us now, we have the money to do it. It is a national disgrace and we would not be part of it. We would like to do it as part of the celebration of Lagos at 50,” He concluded....

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