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31.12.2024 Featured 34 Months on, Sanwo-Olu Fails to Complete Opebi-Mende-Ojota Link Bridge by 2024 Deadline

Published 31st Dec, 2024

By Opeyemi Lawal

Thirty-four months and counting, the Lagos State Government has failed to deliver on its promise of completing the Opebi-Mende-Ojota Link Bridge by the end of 2024.

Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos, first stated in an X post he shared on December 5, 2023, that the project would be completed by the second quarter of 2024.

“Conceived on the 26th of January 2022, the Opebi-Mende-Ojota Link Bridge project embodies our commitment to revolutionise transportation in Lagos State,” he wrote.

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“The anticipated completion of this project in the second quarter of 2024 will transform the landscape, reduce commuting time and enhance the lives of residents. This is us fulfilling our pledge for a better-connected Lagos.”

Also, Olufemi Daramola, Special Adviser Office of Infrastructure, assured journalists during a tour of the area on June 29 that the project would be completed by the end of the year.

However, when FIJ visited the site of the project on Tuesday afternoon, the project was still under construction and the work was far from being completed.

FIJ noted that a section of the bridge that links inward to Opebi, Ikeja, was completed but more work awaits completion, contrary to the promise made by the governor and his special adviser.

There were work materials and equipment at the site but no ongoing work was being done on Tuesday.

The Opebi-Mende-Ojota Link Bridge still undergoing construction. Photo Credit: Opeyemi Lawal/FIJ.

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This is also despite the state government saying that the Opebi-Mende-Ojota Link Bridge and adjoining roads were 85 per cent completed, according to a report on July 2.

Meanwhile, when FIJ visited the office of Tokunbo Ajala, the Director of Road Maintainance and Rehabilitation, Lagos State, in July 2023, following complaints by residents of Odo-Iya Alaro on the snail-paced progress of the project, he said that the project would be ready in 24 months counting from February 2022.

This was in response to the residents’ claim that the state government had promised them the project would only take 18 months before completion.

“That road didn’t begin in December 2021. We flagged off in January 2022. We did not promise to deliver it in 18 months; we said we would do it in 24 months and this pronouncement was made by the governor himself in February 2022,” Ajala told FIJ in July 2023.

FIJ found that the link bridge has been under construction for 34 months but it was yet to be delivered as promised.

A report by Nairametrics also showed that it should have been completed by June 2023.

Sanwo-Olu flagged off the project for construction on January 26, 2022.

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Published 31st Dec, 2024

By Opeyemi Lawal

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