The post is not meant to bring Oga Fash attention to the deporable road condition.We all know he is trying to fix Lagos.

Kwankwaso will beg to see GEJ picture after 2015 election.OBJ too was hold to ransom during his first Tenure.He went on his knee to beg Atiku.We all know the history after he came back for his second term.

@ Clevery,what's ur business?Am sure u are a northerner or westerner.

Fashola has been in Power for six years and have not be able to fix roads in Lagos.How does he intends to fix Nigeria problems in four years if he becomes the President?

.Eko ni Baje.

Why Ogun State?Road is in Lagos State bro.

Fashola for President.

Iyana Ejigbo. Ever heard of the popular junction in Lagos State? It is an important junction that connects many highly populated communities, such as Ejigbo, Egbe, Ikotun, Igando, Egbeda, Ijegun, Idimu, Igando, Jakande Estate, Okota, Ijedodo, Abaranje, Isolo and many others.

This junction, which is between Cele Express and Ikotun, has become a thorn in the flesh of millions of Lagosians that use the road. In fact, many are currently angry with Governor Babatunde Fashola over the abysmal state of Iyana Ejigbo.

A drive from Jakande Estate gate in Oke Afa to Ikotun that, in times past, took about 15 minutes, now takes over one hour due to the traffic bottleneck at the junction. Many wonder why one narrow road should serve so many communities without access roads.

They argued that due to the large community of people on that route, the road ought to have been expanded and made motorable, with easy access routes through Bucknor to Jakande and Okota and Ejigbo and Ajao Estate where a contract to construct a bridge across the infamous Oke Afa canal has been slow.

Residents of the communities said the gruelling experience they usually have at the intersection has forced them to rechristen the place ‘Dreadful Junction.’

Early in the morning when people are going to their different offices, and in the evening when they are returning home, there is a nerve-wracking gridlock at the junction. The logjam is usually caused by the intersection. But for the efforts of traffic control agents, the intersection would have become a no-go area for motorists.

On many occasions, the traffic hold up from the junction usually extends to Ile Iwe in Ikotun area. And in the evening, the logjam from Iyana Ejigbo usually extends to Jakande Estate gate.

Some motorists that want to avoid spending over one hour in traffic would pass through several bumpy roads within the Ejigbo hinterland. Drivers of commercial buses would abandon their vehicles and disappear with their conductors after collecting money from the passengers, leaving the commuters stranded.

When Daily Sun visited Iyana Ejigbo recently, it was discovered that the intersection has a peculiar topography. After rainfall, water from Ejigbo community would find its way to the busy intersection. As gathered, there is no drainage channel to divert the flow into a canal, some 400 metres away.

In 2012, users of the road were happy when earth-moving equipment was moved to Iyana Ejigbo to commence work on the channelisation of the water that usually converges at the intersection whenever there is a downpour. The contractor dug huge troughs but the project was said to have been abandoned thereafter.

However, another contractor is currently handling the construction of the drainage channels. One of the construction workers at the site gave the name of the contractor as Mafinco Construction Nigeria Limited.

But users of the road have expressed concern that the new contractor too could abandon the project just like the first one. They argued that the contractor did not dig the drainage channels to pass through the flood’s nature-ordained path. The proposed drainage, according to them, runs uphill. It was said that a bustling market purportedly owned by a traditional ruler sits on the natural path for the water to flow into the nearby canal.

During the visit, the correspondent observed that construction of the drainage had commenced from Iyana Ejigbo to Ikotun area. About one kilometre of the road from the junction towards Ikotun has been blocked by the contractor.

Work has not started on the other side of the dual carriageway from Ikotun side towards Jakande Estate gate. The ongoing work, however, has been dragging and for weeks nothing happened on the site, as commuters continued to suffer.

The traffic from Cele Express and Ejigbo was being diverted to the lane from Ikotun pending the time the construction would be completed. This situation now causes terrible logjam at Iyana Ejigbo. People moving from Ikotun to Cele Express, Jakande Estate gate to Ikotun or Ejigbo and motorists coming out of Ejigbo community usually runs into the traffic snarl.

A resident of Ejigbo, Mr. Sikiru Ayansola, told Daily Sun: “I am not happy with the Lagos State Government over the road that leads from Cele Express to Ikotun. Also, thousands of people in Ejigbo and other communities around this place are not happy. The road is too narrow. It must be fixed urgently. We are all tax payers.”

“Apart from this, we need an urgent intervention of the government over the heavy traffic at Iyana Ejigbo. We used to have a smooth ride on the road before the junction collapsed. If you were here about a decade ago, you will agree with me that the situation was not like this. As the population of people that are using the road increases, the difficult situation we encounter on the road becomes worse.”

Iyana Ejigbo, according to Ayansola, is always flooded anytime it rains. The flood, he noted, is always knee deep. Road users are faced, repeatedly, with the daunting challenge of crossing the flood.

“When the junction is flooded, many vehicles usually break down in the water. You will see many people walking like chameleons in the flood. Why? It is because Iyana Ejigbo is a confluence for the flood coming from Ikotun, Ejigbo and Oke-Afa.

“If the flood can be channelled to the canal at the Bucknor area of Jakande Estate in Ejigbo here, the problem will be solved. Also, potholes and craters that now dot the junction must be fixed for the problem to go. If the potholes and craters are fixed without channelling the flood to the canal, the junction will soon collapse again,” Ayansola said.

A middle-aged man, who did not want his name in print, also told Daily Sun that Ejigbo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) started the construction of the drainage on both sides of the road sometime ago. He said the state government later took over the job from the LCDA and awarded the contract to another firm.

His words: “I don’t know why the project was taken over by the state government but we residents of this community have not been able to get an answer to a question agitating our minds. The first contractor dug some sand from the road and we don’t know the whereabouts of the sand now.

“Though the new contractor has mobilised to the site, the project is being executed at a snail speed. For instance, the contractor is using one caterpillar and labourers and the caterpillar has been parked at a particular spot for the past one week. But I doubt if the project would be completed in the next three years if we should go by the tempo of work there now.”

Some commercial motorists described the road as the worst in Alimosho Local Government Area of the state. They lamented that there is no viable link road. The alternative route in Jakande Estate, according to them, has become impassable.

One of the commercial drivers, Mr. Philip Akande, said: “This road cannot be handled by the local government. It is only the state government that can really fix it. Can you imagine that some people now resort to walking from Cele Bus Stop along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, Mushin and Oshodi to Iyana Ejigbo because of the traffic situation on the road?

“People do trek this way in order to get home on time. Otherwise, they would get home around 1:00a.m. Some private car owners would also park their cars somewhere and join the pedestrians to walk because this road is terrible.”

In an interview with some journalists in Lagos, one of the project engineers at the site, who refused to disclose his name said: “The construction, this time around, will be good. Just give us some months and see what is going to happen here. We are working on the drainage alone. We have the contract to do the drainage and let the water flow freely.”

The Oyo Anti-Corruption Group (OACG) yesterday dared the Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi over the N1 billion libel suit slammed against it by the governor.

The governor had in a statement by his spokesman, Festus Adedayo, announced the institution of the litigation over an alleged defamation by the group in a newspaper publication on Wednesday.

The publication detailed a petition filed with the two anti-graft agencies- the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) in which the group, led by Lanre Ogundipe, an aide to former governor of the state and Accord Party (AP) leader, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, called for a probe of the contract awards involving the recently inaugurated N3 billion Mokola flyover and the almost half a billion naira “Restoration bridge” both in Ibadan, the state capital.

The group had accused the regime of inflating the contracts.

A defiant Ogundipe, in a statement released in Ibadan yesterday said the group stood by its observations and was prepared to meet the governor in court in its campaign for probity and transparency in governance.

“No one should be under any illusion that the said publication was a ruse. The group is committed to exposing the dirty deals of an insincere government that lacks probity and accountability in administering the resources of the state prudently,” he said, adding that it would not be browbeaten or bullied into submitting the interest of the people.

The OACG boss explained that the petition filed with EFCC and ICPC was merely to ask the anti-corruption agencies to scrutinize the financial transactions on the two projects and other contracts awarded by the Ajimobi led –government, adding: “We are not only ready for the high court, he (governor) should proceed to the Supreme Court to contest the veracity of our contention. We are ready for any form of litigation on the issue.

“We cannot be intimidated by such an empty threat from a legal illiterate, who feels bullying people would deter them from pursuing a just cause. And of course for lawyers, who will want to swindle him and the government would jump at the offer to defend such awards of scandalous contracts.”

Ogundipe stressed that the new twist of legal action would mark the beginning of the end of Ajimobi’s administration in Oyo State, while calling on the EFCC and ICPC to act promptly on the group petition.

Lol.No be only APC,na Apache Helicopter.

Front Page Mod.APC is dead on arrival

Yes,Nigeria is Curse when people like OBJ sleep with their Daughter Inlaw.Please recend your foul Langaugue Baba and respect your age.You got 8 years to improve the fortune of this country but you threw it away.Let GEJ try,we will soon get to the promise land.

If every Civil Servant demand additional N92 Billion,where wll Govt have resources to provide infratracture?Egg Heads that are still using 1980 lecture notes in 2013.

When similar action was given to Ameachi,ApC cried blue murder.Uncle Fash,treadly softly cps we have a greater assignment for you.Don't allow some overzealous sycophant mislead you.

I was @ one of DSTV office yesterday and i over heard some Subscribers reporting and complaining about shady practices by Multichoice(DSTV).

We need to shout out to the Agency Monitoring DSTV and informed them about how Nigerians are currently been short change by DSTV through their new product called GOTV.Some Channels have be yanked off from this pay TV station without any refund to the Subscribers.Subscribers were given flimsy excuses of work in progress to restore the channels without given any time frame.

Its high time we bring this to the notice of NCC,Minister of Communication,Standard Organization of Nigeria,Consumer Protection Agency,EFCC,SSS,Police and the National Assembly of this continuous rip off of many unsuspecting Nigerians.

APC are bunch of frustrated noise Makers.A party that is focus on peddling rumours,false statistics and over heat the country should not be trusted with Power.I am not a fan of GEJ but my vote will surely go to him again to keep APC out of Power.APC will be history in 2015.

GEJ is too soft.How can a Miscrant like El-Rufai refered to seating President as an Oil Thieve?This is getting out of hand.A Chidi Lyold treatment to the likes of El-Rufai will be wellcom.

Fashola is too smart for those Junkie tricks.We don't need to be reminded of who Fashola is by those crooks.Its even a slap on Fashola face to be seen with those Demons

APC is an embarrasement.

He was buried near Iyaoloja Tinibu?RIP Sir.

N4 billion naira to BUK?This Sanusi guy get Liver no be small.

APC will self distruck.Soon,their latent motives will be revealed.

I dey laugh oh with OBJ

Where is Roachas?APC just shot themeselve in the South East.Deep within me,these goes beyound politics.Fashola maybe right deporting destitutes runing around Lagos with no reasonable source of Income.

Yea.Its right for a muslim to throw Bomb during Ramadan

Tell your Mechanic to check the Shaft.

Ok.why didn't they protest against Boko Haram?APC,good job.

Tinubu will compensate him with Legal Adviser to APC.He can also move to his house in Banana Island as part begain for handling some states to Tinubu.He sacrifice all his hard work and time for a pot of pordige from Tinubu.Go and rest in shame.

Him who God has bless,no man can touch.GEJ till 2019 and even when power eventually get to the North inn 2019,Its David Mark.Terrorist can not be allow to draw us back.

Ango,pls,count middle Belt and minotity christain in the North from your calculation.Also tell us clearly that Northern in your contest are Hausa-Fulani muslims.

Yes oh.Through Ameachi.

Northern Governors came visit to mock Ameachi.