Roads & Construction
Fashola Inspects Work Construction At The Apapa – Oworonshoki – Ojota Expressway (PHOTOS)
Nigeria’s minister of works and housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola was in Lagos to inspect and access level of work at various locations in the state. Fashola who was in Lagos to see the level of work being at the third mainland bridge also take time out to visit some locations.
Part of roads he inspected was the Apapa – Oworonshoki – Ojota Expressway Section.
The Apapa Oworonshoki Expressway is a major expressway connecting Apapa to Somolu via Surulere and Mushin in Lagos. For most of its portion, it is a four-lane expressway with two one-way service roads parallel to the expressway. The expressway crosses other major expressways such as Lagos-Badagry Expressway and Ikorodu Road. It also passes Tin Can Island, and its starting point borders the Port of Lagos.
The reconstruction of the road’s Section 1, Sub-section A, begin from the Olorogun Michael Ibru Boulevard (former Creek Road) end of Port Novo Bridge and Liverpool road, in Apapa, through Coconut, Beachland Estate interchange bridge, Cele Bus Stop, Anthony Village, to Old Lagos Toll Gate.
The whole length of the road will be paved with reinforced concrete by Dangote Industries Limited at a whopping cost of N73 billion, using the Road Trust Fund policy.
The fund is a form of a public, private partnership, conceived to accelerate the provision of federal roads by allowing private sector operators to collectively fund road projects in exchange for a tax credit.
“The Road Trust Fund policy gives private sector operators an incentive to fund infrastructure with the government. This is an innovative and laudable scheme, we are putting our money upfront,” said the President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote.
These are photos from the inspection of the road
