The Lagos State Government on Monday claimed to have spent over N59bn on the construction and rehabilitation of federal roads within the state in the past few years.

The Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Mr. Obafemi Hamzat, who spoke at a press conference in Lagos, said it became necessary to put the records straight following a claim by the Minister of State for Works, Mr. Dayo Adeyeye, in a recent interview that apart from federal road projects, nothing had been done in the state.

Hamzat said, “A lot of people listened to the commentary and it is ideal to set the records straight. Some of the things that the minister of state said were that if you remove the federal roads from Lagos, including the Funsho Williams Avenue, Ikorodu Road and the Third Mainland Bridge, that there is nothing else in Lagos.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the kilometres of roads in Lagos are 5,500, out of which about 11.4 per cent or 591 to 592 kilometres belong to the Federal Government; 53 per cent to the state government and 35.6 per cent belong to the local governments. If you add 53 and 35.6 together, it is amazing to say the percentage is irrelevant and 11 per cent is more significant,” the commissioner explained

Hamzat said it was wrong for the minister to say that the state government was not working adding, “It is important to say that the federal roads and bridges are being worked on by the Lagos State Government. Officials of the Federal Ministry of Works visited and confirmed that they owed Lagos State N51bn even though what we submitted was N59bn because we have done federal roads.”

According to him, the state government is currently working on Ikorodu Road, which he said no longer belonged to the Federal Government.

He added that expansion work was also ongoing on the Eko Bridge, while plans had been concluded to rehabilitate the Apapa Bridge.

“On Eko Bridge, we are spending close to N500m to fix the expansion joints, which are 34 on both sides; the contract is being carried out by Julius Berger; these are facts that the honourable minister seems not to be aware of and Nigerians know the truth. We are evaluating the Apapa Bridge and work will commence there once we finish the Eko Bridge,” he added.

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What Hamzat needs to do is work out a way to get the Lagos-Abeokuta road off the hands of the FG and allow the Lagos and Ogun states handle the road. They took over Badagry expressway and Ikorodu road....Lagos-Abeokuta road should be next

Later some goats will come here to say Jonathan is the one transforming what the APC administration actually achieved

With the way contract sums are willfully bloated by fashola and gang, one has to take this with a pinch of salt

Say no to PDP and their league of anywhere belle face.

The difference is clear!!!





Join the March4Buhari movement.

Because gej is clueless and has not been able to do anything right, his supporters are quick to claim what is not theirs just to save his face. So they did in kano.

owobokiri:
With the way contract sums are willfully bloated by fashola and gang, one has to take this with a pinch of salt

'maybe we should take ur brain with a pinch of salt'.

I dey come

Don't take dis man serious, wad good can come from a "sane" man who wants to hand over d govt to a mad cum mental case man called ambode

caselessogbuagu:
'maybe we should take ur brain with a pinch of salt'.

Why the insult? All of you dung beetles from that part of the country make so much fuse about your tradition of respect and all that but in boards like this, insults, petty outburts and funny aggressive tendencies have somehow become your forté. Face the topic of my post and leave my brain alone; why is fashola and gang inflating contracts beyond belief?

It's so funny how jonathan is now painting the 3rd mainland bridge green white green with its extension down to ojota, same road maintained by lagos state with beautiful Flowers

APC and their ussual trademark of lies.
Why not fashola come public?
Why is he spewing this garbage only on nairaland?

The poster above me is a kid, kindly disregard his dumb utterances. Nairaland owns punchng now ehh?

Lies. APC full of lies and propaganda. We in Lagos knows what is happening. APC = Fraud

What prudent state government will spend so much in rehabilitating federal roads (that have their own budget) when a huge percentage of their own roads are a risk to road users,un-motorable due to huge craters and an eye sore?

Left to the FG and PDP, lagos would have become another borno.
If you want to compare the FG and the LASG, pay a visit to the FG owned national stadium and the LASG owned teslim balogun stadium.