Bad road, hampers LASTMA Unit 17 Ojo operations

There are strong indications that operations of officers and men of the Okokomaiko Unit 17 of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) are seriously  hampered by large portions of the road that could better be described as a death trap.

This is despite repeated appeals on yearly basis by millions of frustrated local and foreign motorists and visitors from West Africa plying the Lagos-Badagry  expressway to both the state and the federal government. The Lagos-Badagry highway occupies a strategic position as the gateway to other neighbouring countries of Republic of Benin, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast.

Instead of the effective traffic control and enforcement mandate that gave birth to LASTMA, officers have instead resorted to  helping to control helpless and aggrieved drivers navigate bad portions of the road, while commuters regularly abandon their commuter buses to trek to their far destinations.

Athough, LOT 2 of the road expansion project embarked upon by the Chinese Civil Engineering and Construction Company (CCECC)  starts from the Mile 2 axis  to terminate  at Okokomaiko, road users beyond Okokomaiko are daily exposed to horrifying  experience  of passing through the stretch, no thanks to deep gullies that is now a common denominator along the highway with Isashi as the flashpoint.

At the Iyana-Iba bus stop, the situation is getting worst on daily basis as a result of a the daily 18-hour trading activities  with its associated security implications a very important gateway to the rest of West African community.