More protests as NLC gives FG, Ogun 21 days to fix Lagos-Abeokuta Highway

More protesters hit the Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta expressway on Wednesday as the Ogun State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) gave the federal and the state governments a 21-day ultimatum to fix the deplorable highway. The state chairman of NLC, Comrade Emmanuel Bankole, led members of the union and residents of Ota, under the aegis of […]

More protesters hit the Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta expressway on Wednesday as the Ogun State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) gave the federal and the state governments a 21-day ultimatum to fix the deplorable highway.

The state chairman of NLC, Comrade Emmanuel Bankole, led members of the union and residents of Ota, under the aegis of Ota Progressive Youth Initiative in protest against the poor state of the road, which has become a death trap to motorists and commuters.

Our correspondent in Abeokuta reports that this is the second time in one month that residents would be protesting the deplorable state of the highway.

In another round of demonstration on Wednesday, protesters, in their hundreds, took to the road with placards with various inscriptions, some of which read ‘Repair our road with immediate effect or face the wrath of the masses’ and ‘400 per cent hike in transport fare due to bad road’ and ‘Our roads are death traps’, among others.

They shut down the road from Joju bus stop, leaving scores of motorists stranded for hours.

Speaking on behalf of the protesters, the state chairman of the NLC threatened to shut down the state in a mass protest if the government failed to fix the road in the next 21 days.

He lamented that despite the recent visit of Governor Dapo Abiodun and the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, to assess the road, nothing had been done.