Road Users Now Sleep On Ore - Benin Expressway

My heart bleeds for users of Benin -Ore Expressway.
I consider that the road which is a major link between the East and the Western part of Nigeria has failed. To say that the road is in a state of disrepair is a major understatement.

Road users travelling from Lagos to Onitsha now spend about  two (2) days on a journey that normally takes about 5 hours.

This is harzardous. Several portions of the road have become impassable, deathtraps, accident-prone and even dens for armed robbers.

Apart from the uncordinated patching of the road once in a while, no major repairs have been done on that road in about twenty years. Yet we kept hearing that the contract for the road has been awarded several times.  Recall that a serving Federal Minister visited and inspected this same road and wept after seeing the failed portions of the road. About 3 years after the incident nothing tangible has been done on the road. In fact if that Minister were to inspect that road today, she will slump.
 
As Christmas approaches, I suggest that Government takes immediate measures to save lives by doing the following:

1. Commence immediate repair of the road
2. Dispatch traffic management team including Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to control and  direct traffic on that road.
3. Develop a strategy to ensure sustainable maintenance of the road
4. Rebuild the road to an 8 - lane super highway
5. Build an alternative link between the East and the West.

This is an important road. The Government should rise up and take action on this road.

Heard some people spent about 9 hours in that road.

Who is using highway roads these days?Build airports abeg  

@ nuzo
It is not exactly stale news. It is several times worse now than it has ever been. It took a friend 2 days and 1 night to travel from lagos to benin recently. He as the poster said some do slept in the coach overnight. Absolutely pathetic.
Billions of dollars have been budgetted to rehabilitate that stretch of road from the time of Anthony Anenih then Fed. Min. of Works under OBJ. Nothing tangible has ever been done.
It is alledged that some locals whose youths help/are paid to push broken down vehicles from the mud/potholes sabotage the miniscal efforts at patching the roads especially at the Edo and Ondo end. They destroy the tarred roads at night, so they can maintain their source of income.
@ asha80
You need to donate your brain to science research cos it appears an empty space in your skull will serve more purpose. So we should all take to the air because of bad roads? Do you read what you type at all.

@ asha80

You go begin build bus [plane] stops for air be that. If them leave you, you go pose on top of maggi!

I thought one Minister wept after seeing and experiencing the plight of travellers on that road? Abi her tears don dry and the experience forgotten so soon? Na wa for our leaders. 

@ikeyman000.

Na people like u i pity most in Naija, bad road to go home, kidnappers are also waiting in the wings for u.

 You guys are in soup this Xmas at home.

The roads remain in a terrible state. Nothing has been done to fix it. Yesterday armed robbers attacked commuters in broad daylight dispossessing them of valuables. This happened even when other passangers were watching  in the queue.