Despite calls on the governor of Ogun State, Gov. Ibikunle Amosun, the minister of power, works and housing Mr. Babatunde Fashola to quickly intervene on the Atan-Igbesa Road, none of these government parastatals have blinked an eyelid and the citizens are at the receiving end daily.

Atan-Igbesa-Agbara road is a strategically-structured economic road which serves as a linkage road between Nigeria and West African countries through Badagry-Seme border and Republic of Benin to the east and Iba-Alaba-Mile 2 and Apapa seaports to the west.

The Atan-Igbesa-Agbara industrial road hosts 70% of manufacturing industries in the state, the road was started by Shehu Shangri-led Federal Government in the early 80s and originally tagged Badagry-Agbara-Abeokuta-Sokoto road but has since abandoned by successive governments and now causes perennial problems for human and vehicular traffic inbound and outbound Ogun state and Lagos state as well as Benin Republic through either Idi-Iroko border or Badagry-Seme border.

It will be recalled that Governor Ibikunle Amosun-led Ogun state government in July, 2017 signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with private investors in Atan-Igbesa-Agbara industrial areas being represented by Kolapo Lawson, Chairman of Agbara Estates Limited on possible road reconstruction based on public-private partnership arrangement, using concrete technology that will cost about N23 billion.

An AutoReportNG reader sent us visuals on what motorists go through this road daily. The teary video clip shows the pains, the agony and stress of residents along this area.

The most interesting thing is that Agbara/Igbesa has the highest number of companies in Ogun state, with the like of Nestle, GSK, GZi, BIG COLA, Beloxxi, Avanti, Beta Glass, Nampak, Pharmadeko, Reckitt, Suntory (Lucozade and Ribena), Eko supreme, Hyatt, Comestar, Unilever, Procter and Gamble, Perfetti, etc to mention just few.

There are more than 40 companies within Agbara, let alone the over 30 within the China Free Trade Zone. Alas, the major link road is in a mess. No day goes by without major safety incident of containers skidding off on the road.

The questions on our mind are:

1. Why is the federal government not saying anything about this road despite the cries from motorists on this route?
2. Why has the Ogun State government on whose corridor at least for the love of its citizen try to find a palliative measure to ease the movement of goods and services as what is being done in Lagos state?
3. With over 40 companies spanned along this route, why have the companies not form a coalition as being done in Apapa-Wharf in Lagos where the likes of Dangote, Flour Mills, and other companies merge together and agree to construct the roads themselves thereby applying for tax holidays from the Federal Government? This will not only help them but make them have a sense of belonging and they can supervise the construction without any form of corruption since they are directly involved in the process.

From our investigations, we understand that this is a major road for all factories within this axis to transport their finish goods from the factories to the final consumers across the country, so this needs an urgent attention.

We want to use this platform to please appeal to the Federal Government and the State Government to kindly come to a logical conclusion and find a way to make this road motorable. People are going through a lot on this road and you can't but shed some tears when you realized that this government is blessed with enormous resources and wealth.

These are pictures and video from the road.

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Watch the video HERE


Source:
https://www.autoreportng.com/2018/11/the-pains-agony-of-road-users-of-atan.html

Ogun State Gov... Pls do something

Watch the video clip and see more pictures here

https://www.autoreportng.com/2018/11/the-pains-agony-of-road-users-of-atan.html

Terrible... The people in charge should take note

Very pathetic, I plight the road recently its arguably the worst road in Nigeria.

Cursed black nation...

He is about completing his second term, no need to work anymore. That's the norm now.

Learnt that the road in question has been awarded, constructed & commissioned on paper, funds meant for it was embezzled by Ibikunle Amosun.

Mheeen

Lol

That road has been like that for few years now and nothing has been done to it.


Amosun has really failed in Ogun state in terms of governance.

The normal picture of Nigerian roads

Dey shud drag Amosun.Instead make he fix the bad roads,mbanu!Nah how he go run for senator after 8 yrs as OGSG.

Instead of Amosu to do something about this road, he is busy running to & fro Abuja for a dream that can never come to pass.

FAILURE! that's is his surname.

This road has withheld serious developments in this axis.
One thing I know is that it will surely be repaired one day.
Once this road is fully reconstructed, prices of properties around this corridor will sky rocket...

Agbero still dey collect money for that area go give government.. And we keep silent, our mumu never do.. suffering and smiling. ;DAgbero still dey collect money for that area go give government.. And we keep silent, our mumu never do.. suffering and smiling.

ok

This is a road i ply occasionally, it's been like that for as long as i can remember with the govt turning a blind eye towards it tenure-in-tenure-out.

There's however a rumour going around that the construction of this road has been approved and full payments made a long time ago but embezzled and constitutionally, a road should last for about 50yrs or so before any major work can be done on it, that's why past govt have been neglecting it.


I can't verify the authenticity of the rumour but with the negligible attitude of past govt, it's looking like it, as they'll all feel cheated covering someone else's ass.

T4taiwo:
Very pathetic, I plight the road recently its arguably the worst road in Nigeria.

Have you ever passed the former jebba-mokwa road....if truly the federal government has fixed it.... This road still dey learn...

If actually they want the roads fixed let youth of communities stretching from Atan-Igbesa-Agbara barricade the roads daily with huge obstructions, stop all vehicular movements, trucks, lorries and paralyse activities on the roads. Ensure both employers and employees sit at home since the road is the only transit route. Ogun, Nigeria, Ghana, Benin and most West African countries will know how far!

This is very pathetic.

bayelsaowei:
Cursed black nation...

Not Far from the Truth

That road is bad. From Agbara to Igbesa. And Amosun (or Amusu) is doing nothing as the Governor of Ogun State

olucomf:
Agbero still dey collect money for that area go give government.. And we keep silent, our mumu never do.. suffering and smiling. ;DAgbero still dey collect money for that area go give government.. And we keep silent, our mumu never do.. suffering and smiling.

Agberos don't collect money&give to govt. They collect and pocket

APC gonment is working...

why can't all the company in that area boycott tax well if they are paying

Sigh