SUNRISE NEWS, Lagos, July 10,2020 Palliative measures would continued to be deployed across Lagos roads to deal with noticeable potholes created with the onset of the raining season, the Lagos State Public Works Corporation said on Friday.
The agency’s spokesman Mr Ganiu Lawal said the agency will return to fully repair the roads during the dry season.
He reiterated the LSPWC’s General Manager Engr. Olufemi Daramola who while fielding questions on Traffic Radio in Lagos on Thursday assured Lagosians that the agency would continue to work round the clock to make the roads motorable.
He disclosed that the mandate of LSPWC is to carry out major and sectional rehabilitation of failed roads and also patch potholes. This according to him is in line with the vision of Mr Jide Sanwoolu, the Governor of Lagos State to ensure zero tolerance for potholes on Lagos Roads.
He mentioned that ‘’between the onset of the dry season in November 2019 and the approach of the wet season by May 2020, the agency carried rehabilitation of over 260 roads across the state’’.
He further said that palliative maintenance is going on everyday on some roads to avoid total failure as a result of the amount of high heavy vehicular traffic and need for total reconstruction. Roads like Oba Akran for which the State is looking for Public Private Partnership financing model will continue to be properly maintained until a willing investor is secured. He reiterated the fact that there still exists bad roads in Lagos State but the quantity and effect cannot be compared to what obtained in May 2019 when the Administration of Mr Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu was inaugurated.
He stressed that with the raining season at its peak, the agency will continue to intervene at critical and strategic roads with granite boulders and interlocking paving stone to repair potholes, reduce traffic and lessen road discomfort on major road and intersections.
Engr. Daramola empathizes with Lagosians for the attendant traffic gridlocks on some roads. He passionately appeal to members of the public to treat the roads as a major public asset and also protect the roads against abuses such as indiscriminate dumping of refuse in drains, unnecessary cutting of roads and prevent removal of manholes. All these abuses contribute to road failure and general dilapidation of road infrastructure.