At last, Lagos intervenes in collapsed Gberigbe road
…residents want entire stretch of road fixed
Relief has come the way of Gberigbe and adjoining communities in Ikorodu area of Lagos, as government has finally fixed the collapsed portion of the Gberigbe road, which had cut off the community from other parts of Ikorodu.
Vehicular traffic which had come to a halt on the road is now flowing with ease following the government’s intervention.
For several months, residents of the suburb lived with pains, as the collapsed road shut down their economy, just as visitors found it difficult to access the community.
Aramide Adeyoye, the special adviser to the state government on works and infrastructure, who commented on the repair of the road, said the intervention was to alleviate the suffering of the people occasioned and ‘breathe life’ into their economy once again.
Adeyoye noted that the repair would reduce travel time, cost of vehicle maintenance and also reduce stress-induced health challenges on the residents of the axis.
Some of the residents and motorists plying the Ijede to Gberigbe, Agura, Igbokuta, Imota and environs, who expressed joy that the road has finally been repair, said it a was a dream come.
Commending the intervention, a commercial bus driver, Akeem Bolanle said that the road had to be abandoned by private and commercial vehicles due to its state. This, he said, compelled them to ply a longer route through Imota and pass the cost on passengers by charging higher fares.
“People commuting Ijede road to Gberigbe, Agura and Igbokuta had to go through Itamaga to Imota before they could access their homes at Agura and Gberigbe,” said Bolanle.
Also speaking, Patricia Ojumo, a resident, said staff and students of Igbokuta Model College had suffered untold hardship before the rehabilitation of the road.
According to her, at resumption of school last week, students whose homes were contiguous to the school still had to go through Imota to access it.
She, however, appealed to the state government to fix the entire stretch of the road in order to accommodate increasing vehicular traffic occasioned by development in the area.