Residents of Victory Park Estate, Jakande-Lekki, in the Eti Osa Local Government Area of Lagos have lamented the lack of access road into the estate.
The area, which is a highbrow Lagos community, is home to blue-chip companies, hotels and palatial residences.
The main access road to the community is a wooden bridge, which was constructed by a logistics company whose corporate headquarters is located in the community.
Our correspondent, who visited the place on Wednesday, observed that road users endure adversities endeavoring to enter or leave the estate.
It was noted that the one lane wooden bridge could not take more than one conveyance at a time.
Once a conveyance climbed the bridge, the conveyance trailing it had to wait for it to go across afore entering.
The residents verbalized the process had been causing gridlock, especially in the morning and tardy in the evening.
A resident of the community, while lamenting the situation, repined that many of them find it arduous to get to work on time as a result of the situation.
The resident, who pleaded anonymity, verbalized, “The situation is quite bearable now that schoolchildren are on vacation. It used to be worse than this, because apart from rushing to get to work on time, most of us have to additionally worry about dropping our children off to school. The effect is that you will find more conveyances struggling to make utilization of this minuscule bridge, thereby engendering a traffic jam.”
A member of the residents’ association, Joe Nwoko , lamented that four months since the culvert that subsisted on the road was demolished, nothing concrete had been done to reconstitute it.
He queried the competence of the contractor handing the project, which according to him, is moving at a very slow pace.
“The contractor handling this project is very inefficient. There is no designation or designation at the site to show who is handling the project. They do not have the technical adeptness and competence to do the job, otherwise, they will be proud to identify themselves and showcase their work. If they had been competent, there would have been consequential progress in the last four months,” he verbally expressed.
The Managing Director of AA RESCUE, the company which constructed the makeshift bridge expounded that it was the firm’s little way of ameliorating the sufferings of the people in the community.
The Lagos State Commissioner for Works, Obafemi Hamzat, could not be reached on the phone for comments and a text message sent to his phone, was not replied to at the time of the report.
The area, which is a highbrow Lagos community, is home to blue-chip companies, hotels and palatial residences.
The main access road to the community is a wooden bridge, which was constructed by a logistics company whose corporate headquarters is located in the community.
Our correspondent, who visited the place on Wednesday, observed that road users endure adversities endeavoring to enter or leave the estate.
It was noted that the one lane wooden bridge could not take more than one conveyance at a time.
Once a conveyance climbed the bridge, the conveyance trailing it had to wait for it to go across afore entering.
The residents verbalized the process had been causing gridlock, especially in the morning and tardy in the evening.
A resident of the community, while lamenting the situation, repined that many of them find it arduous to get to work on time as a result of the situation.
The resident, who pleaded anonymity, verbalized, “The situation is quite bearable now that schoolchildren are on vacation. It used to be worse than this, because apart from rushing to get to work on time, most of us have to additionally worry about dropping our children off to school. The effect is that you will find more conveyances struggling to make utilization of this minuscule bridge, thereby engendering a traffic jam.”
A member of the residents’ association, Joe Nwoko , lamented that four months since the culvert that subsisted on the road was demolished, nothing concrete had been done to reconstitute it.
He queried the competence of the contractor handing the project, which according to him, is moving at a very slow pace.
“The contractor handling this project is very inefficient. There is no designation or designation at the site to show who is handling the project. They do not have the technical adeptness and competence to do the job, otherwise, they will be proud to identify themselves and showcase their work. If they had been competent, there would have been consequential progress in the last four months,” he verbally expressed.
The Managing Director of AA RESCUE, the company which constructed the makeshift bridge expounded that it was the firm’s little way of ameliorating the sufferings of the people in the community.
The Lagos State Commissioner for Works, Obafemi Hamzat, could not be reached on the phone for comments and a text message sent to his phone, was not replied to at the time of the report.
