New Set Of 114 Roads Will Ready By Nov. 2017

Months after the completion of the first set of 114 Roads Project across the 20 Local Government Areas (LGs) and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in Lagos State, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has disclosed that the new set of another 114 Roads across the State will be ready in November 2017.


Ambode disclosed this during the celebration of the 2016 edition of the Lagos Cultural Day with the theme “Community Policy; A Panacea for Securing our Communities” which held at the Police College, Ikeja.
Speaking through State Commissioner for Home Affairs, Hon. Abdul Lateef Abdul Hakeem, Ambode said that “from the suburbs to the urban centres of our sprawling megacity, we broke the jinx of darkness by lighting up the neighbourhood through our “Light Up” Project. We broke the jinx of sub-urban development by providing 114 roads across 20 Local Government Areas (LGs) and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs). We are breaking the jinx of eternal gridlock and loss of productive man hours by setting free the Third Mainland – Oworonshoki - Alapere axis, Abule Egba and Ajah through improvements on traffic carriageways, lay-bys and bus shelters”.
He stressed further that “in 2015, we made a solemn promise to provide a total of 114 roads across the State with two designated roads in each of the 57 Local Government and Local Council Development Areas. We delivered on our promise and we have commenced the process for the construction of the second batch of 114 roads which, God willing, would have been completed before the next Community Day (November 2017)”.

Furthermore, the Governor thanked the tax payers in the state for the prompt payment of their taxes while urging Lagosians to continue paying their taxes to help the developmental plans of the State. In his words, “we could not have .....