OGA at the top and Omo Lagos are at it again. Check out the competing signposts in this small spot where the Oshodi-Apapa service lane and the Ladipo Market Road meet at the Toyoto Bus Stop!
It appears that Aso Rock and Alausa are ready to flex muscles over what looks like a trunk C (Local Government-controlled) road.
Of course, both of them wish to take quick credit for the shoddily repaired Ladipo Market Road. Everyone wants to show he is working, notwithstanding the fact that the gateway to Nigeria — the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Road — and some Lagos inner city roads still remain an eye sore.
But CC thinks that this fight is most welcome; after all, Predecessors Baba and Jagaban had set the ball rolling with the Local Government Fund palaver and their sons in Aso Rock and Alausa will definitely need to perfect the game, having, first, tested the waters with the Lagos Third Mainland Bridge ‘shout-outs.’
Now, Prodigal son, FERMA, and agent Lagos State Public Works Corporation are on ground to voice the message of their principals; and each of them is ready to shout themselves hoarse. While Baba Federal thinks that leaving Lagos signpost alone on that spot could erroneously add the service lane to its (Lagos’) bouquet of maintenance projects, Lagos feels at home with the fact that the market and the adjoining road rightly belong to it.
Yet, the badly repaired (or still-being-repaired) roads — Oshodi-Apapa service lane and Ladipo market road — are yet to put on their best looks.
Although FERMA’s signpost is still hoisted within its domain, CC wonders why it is “unstrategically” hidden at that Ladipo junction far away from the centre of attraction — the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway that needs urgent attention.
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