With the road’s decline, there seems to be no let up to the avalanche of pain and agony many people experience it. It gets worse every rainy season.Īs portions of the road keeps decaying, ministries, departments and agencies of governments statutorily saddled with the task of maintaining these roads have also failed in their responsibility to maintain the roads.Īnd even when funds are made available for such purposes, it is either that shoddy jobs are carried out without proper supervision by the relevant authorities concerned or that, such allocations are diverted by the contractors or government agency given the job to execute. A good portion of the highway, especially from the Okokomaiko end to Agbara all the way to the historical town of Badagry, remains in terrible condition. What is news is that, the project is currently going at a snail speed under the present administration of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.įor many years, the Lagos-Badagry Expressway in Lagos State has been in a deteriorating state for a long while. It is no longer news that the government of former Governor Babatunde Fashola and now minister of power, works and housing embarked on the ambitious plan of expanding the Lagos-Badagry road into 10-lanes with the inclusion of a rail line that will run from Okokomaiko to Marina and provision for BRT mass transit route.
The historic road distance connecting Nigeria to its neighbours in West Africa has long lost its once enviable status as the international gateway to other African countries.
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