Tired of the endless pathetic tales of Ejigbo residents over the embarrassing condition of roads in the area, the Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC), a civil society group, has decided to take the fight to the Lagos State Government.
Roads in Ejigbo are eyesores while those in government only remember the area during electioneering campaigns. The residents of the area have tirelessly complained about the government’s abandonment of the area to no avail.
In some areas of Ejigbo, the roads have become impassable thus frustrating business activities. The road, claimed to have been recently awarded by the state government, has been abandoned as motorists park their vehicles at a distance, instead trekking the length of the road to their destinations.
The group is now asking the Lagos State Government to furnish it with documents of contract award for the Ejigbo-Idimu Road that has become useless to motorists and residents, as well as the name of the contractor to whom the project was awarded. The state government is to produce these needed documents within seven days as required by the Freedom of Information Act.
The group’s demand was contained in a letter addressed to Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Femi Hamzat, and dated 18th November 2013. The document, according to the letter signed by the group’s Chairman, Olarenwaju Suraju, must contain every detail about the project, its total cost, as well as the deadline for the completion of the project.
Suraju, who said residents of the area had written several times to the state government but that the government always turned a deaf ear to their plights, said the Ejigbo-Idimu road, which is located in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, is currently in decrepit status” and has degenerated gradually over the years due to lack of maintenance.
“The road has dilapidated to the extent that the commercial buses, including the few motorists who used to ply the road, have had to abandon it for alternative access roads”, he lamented.
He said the particular road is filled with gullies and puddles, reducing means of transportation on the road to commercial motorcycles and tricycles, popularly called keke Marwa. He added that residents are tired of gliding in the water with motorcycles and tricycles each time they use the road.
However, he did not state the next line of action should the government fail to furnish his group with the demanded documents.
