Time and time and again , Containers fall off the trailers conveying them due to Bad and terrible roads , mainly around the Apapa- Tincan axis of lagos. These roads have now become non motor able. Cars cannot ply these roads because of the frightening number and sizes of port-holes( gully's) like valleys.
Containers fall regularly and kill the innocent Lagisians.
Containers fall regularly and block the small good parts of the road causing several hours of hold up.
The sad story is that Governor fashola is fooling himself by busy singing that its a federal Road and so he cannot repair the road.
Governor Akpabio should teach Fashola how to govern. It is not by sewing uniforms for Fashola's own soldiers (Agbero) and positioning them all over lagos to be extorting innocent Taxi and Bus drivers for him fashola's pocket.

The OP is seriously joking. Why should Fashola repair an important road that leads to the nation's most busiest port? Do you realise that the FG needs less than 15 percent of the profit generated from that port to fix that dilapidated road? Isn't it shameful that the FG has turned a blind eye to that terrible road?

Has FG paid over 50 billion naira it owes Lagos state for repairing FG roads?

Lagos State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Kadir Hamzat, has urged the Federal Government to pay the debt it owes the state for the roads it has constructed on its behalf.

He made this declaration last week at an interactive session with media executives in his office at Alausa.

According to him, if the Federal Government could pay up, the state government would be happy. He added the state was being owed about N51 billion spent on fixing federal roads in the state.

He hunted that the payment would enable the government to look at more roads for construction, noting that construction of Lagos State roads would wear a new look in 2013.

Hamzat said his ministry would not, henceforth, award a project that cannot be completed in the particular year awarded; stating that in the past three years government awarded 443 roads, out of which 183 were awarded in 2012.

“By 2013, we would not award project that will not be finished and the 2013 project will be the function of the work we are unable to finish in 2012. 443 roads have been awarded within the last three years while 183 among it were a awarded in 2012; Lagos-Badagry Expressway, Herbert Macaulay Way, among others. We still have some uncompleted roads so we are mindful of the roads we would award for 2013.”

He added that mobilisations had been paid for the 183 roads which must be certified during their work. “American is growing because of their good roads. If there are good roads people can be working in Ibadan from Lagos without relocation,” he said.

In addition, he said the construction system would wear a different look in 2013, claiming that the state government has adopted a system that would enable the work to be a less stressful for the contractor and will not interfere in the moving of the citizenry on their daily basis.

“The design of our roads will change, we are now building a civil infrastructure and we are using the red bridge. Most roads that are jointed we are looking for the best way to construct it without delay. In our new design the construction of hospital must be different from school.”

He noted that the new design would also have effect on pedestrian bridges, in order to make it awkward for the wheeled people and also planning to put in place for water transportation.

“We want to build the pedestrian bridges in another form. It will make life conducive for people, even the wheeled we pass through the pedestrian. This kind of infrastructure actually changes the setting of the state. We are planning that people could go on water and roads.”

Hamzat disclosed that, Lekki Bridge was technically ready but the contractors were only building a physical retrain that will stop trailers form plying that road. He also said Iso Pakodowo and Oyingbo are done and would be open soon.

He emphasised that the Lagos-Badagry Expressway was delayed because of the link to Oshodi and claims the road has a technical charge as it will be serving more than 280 million people on a daily basis.

Meanwhile, he said the reason of building those shops and roads was to make trading swift for the people. He explained that Current Replacement Value (CRV) was a factor put in place for check and balances in the building of infrastructure that states that you must not spend more on maintenance.

Hamzat who said the year budget passed by the works has not been signed, explained that if government could increase the budget, it will pull more effect in the construction of roads and other facilities in 2013.

When asked on the amount spend on those project, he said some times there were always additional charges aside the bill that as publicly announced because in the olden days there were no planning and it is in the cost of construction that they got to know some roads has a pipe line under which they have to move to an appropriate side; saying that “Okota Constrution has taken more than the award amount. We are relocating pipelines at the Lagos-Badagry express way in about three metre from the plan. Alaba Cemetery when we are about doing it we found two cars in the road we have to pull it.”

He explained that about 324 piles were sunk in Isheri-Osun, saying that the Isheri-Osun to Jakonde Road contract could be re-awarded.

To ease the area where work has not commenced yet, Hamsat said, there is no criteria in the selection of roads construction, that the only reason the work is delayed as where to discharge the water.

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/01/federal-government-owes-lagos-n51b-on-roads-hamzat/