WORK TO RESUME ON LAGOS/IBADAN EXPRESSWAY NEXT SAID FASHOLA

By Tokason 11-06-2016 06:41:51 AM Share Work to resume on Lagos/Ibadan Expressway next week - Fashola Work to resume on Lagos/Ibadan Expressway next week - Fashola Work is to resume on the expansion of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway next Monday despite the huge govern­ment’s debts to the contrac­tors, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has re­vealed. Fashola who spoke at the inaugural BuhariMeter TownHall Meeting organ­ised by the Centre for De­mocracy and Development in Abuja on President Bu­hari’s one year in office, said the contractors had assured that they would go back to work on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway project. Work on the project, a major arterial road, linking many major cities across the six geo-political zones of the country, has been aban­doned for almost two years as contractors withdrew due to legal tussles and funding issues. A statement by the Special Adviser to the minister on Communication, Hakeem Bello on Friday, quoted Fashola as saying that “our contractors will go back to the Lagos-Ibadan Express­way next week Monday. They haven’t been paid, but that is what change means; that this government is cred­ible and believable, if we say we will pay we will pay”. He added that “and this is what has happened with our contractors; on the basis of our credibil­ity we have asked them to go back to site. And this is what you will see in places like Ihiala and few other places that we are intervening” SHARE ON: Share Facebook Twitter