expressway’s completion<\/a> date was subject to difficulties that have delayed construction, he added, noting that the roads will be tolled.<\/p>\n\u201cThe expected completion date now will be in the last month of this year. We are hoping that we will be done before Christmas and that is subject to a lot of variables,\u201d Fashola said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we speak now, somewhere between Ojo, the Oyo state government is constructing a drilling facility. So, that has slowed our work considerably, in spite of the fact that the contractor is now working at night. So, just two days ago, Governor Makinde and I were talking because I called him a week ago that look, we need to make a choice, which do you prioritise the drainage or that road? And he said the road is what affects, but we can\u2019t dismiss the need for the drainage. So, he called me back to say look, he has a solution now. He\u2019s worked with the contractor, talked to them and we\u2019ll discuss it in this new way.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, these are some of the challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fashola, who hinted at the situation of the road prior to the current administration, said the Lagos-Ibadan expressway was in a terrible condition.<\/p>\n
According to him, part of the reason the project had taken this long was because of a lack of funding from past governments.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me also say that over the years, at the time, we took $2 billion to go and pay creditors in 2005 this road was bad. People used to sleep on it. So let us dimension that completion. The road is built in sections. That road has no less than 40,000 vehicles every day that\u2019s the traffic road count that we did, so you can\u2019t close it down. So, what we do is to close sections of one side, divert traffic to the other side. Complete about 10\/20 kilometers and then reopen it and move traffic back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow what you might not know and it is important to share this the construction material likely comes from Ogun state. So, whether you\u2019re constructing the Lagos section or the Oyo section, you have to go and move laterite cross tools, and all of that, they move in the same traffic. So, thousands of daily truck trips. And that road is being excavated to about a meter or more deep, so, we\u2019re essentially first removing bad material from unsuitable material, filling up and then constructing the road. So, I don\u2019t think it is slow. What has happened is that over the years government has not funded it sufficiently.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we factored it this year subject to some of these challenges that I\u2019ve told you. Governor Makinde and I will resolve that pretty soon.<\/p>\n
Fashola, while admitting that the road will be tolled, said it will eventually be \u201chanded over to the concessionaires who NSA is talking to to bring in more financing.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to him, the road will \u201ctwo to three\u201d tolling plazas.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne on the Lagos end, one in the Ogun end. And I think the other one, in Ibadan which is what we used to have there before traditionally,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, speaking on the completion date for the Second Niger Bridge, the minister assured Nigerians that the road would be opened for use by December 20222.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re planning also before Christmas to open that (Second Niger Bridge) to public for use, because that\u2019s when there\u2019s a large movement. Hopefully by Christmas, it should also be open. That was the last meeting I had with the contractor I think about three weeks ago. There are challenges of course, as you might know, but the main bridge deck is finished,\u201d Fashola said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe toll plazas have been built.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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