Kunle Adelabu
-Work begins on Geregere ‘death trap’
The Chairman, Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Ikorodu Division area of Lagos State, Builder Sesan Daini, has assured that the Market Street project will be completed in the next one or two months.
Work resumed on the project a few days back, after it stopped months back.
Daini gave the assurance at the Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA Secretariat office, on Monday, while responding to questions by our reporter. He said that the council is fully prepared to complete the project after suffering setbacks twice, and 15 months after commencement.
It would be recalled that the project, which was awarded to Western Concrete Nigeria Limited, was slated for completion within 12 weeks, and started May 19, 2022, but, however, suffered a setback a few weeks after.
The scope of the work, according to the information board on the site when it started, stated that there would be two sides drains (both sides reinforced concrete with cover slab), surfacing with interlocking stones, marking of the road and painting of kerbs and installation of street lights, but, stopped weeks after the construction started.
The contractor, in September 2022, moved back to site to start construction works, and did the concrete drains on both sides, only for the work to be abandoned again.
The Council boss, responding to residents’ outcry at the 2022 Budget/Stakeholders’ Forum held at the Igbogbo/Bayeku LCDA on Monday, November 7, 2022, appealed to the residents and assured that the project would be completed by the ending of last year, but that did not come to fruition.
“It is supposed to have been completed, but we have one or two challenges. I can assure you that before the last week of this year (2022) or the second week of January (2023), we are going to commission that road for usage”, Builder Daini said at the stakeholders’ forum last year.
Meanwhile, the council has also moved in to finally proffer a permanent solution to a deep drain that residents have tagged, ‘Death trap’, at Geregere area, along the Oba Molaja Road, Igbogbo.
There has been public outcry over the years, urging the council to do something about the threatening state of the said portion of the road, following the vandalisation of the iron and barbed wire barricade provided by the Builder Daini’s administration, early in his first term in office.
When our reporter, who had reported the public outcry, visited the point on Wednesday, the deep gully had been filled with concrete and barricaded to prevent accidents.
Speaking on the project, the council chairman said that the concrete application is meant to permanently resolve the challenge, and assured motorists and other road users that the road is safe for them.
