Julius Berger Nigeria plc has returned
to site on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway ahead of its plan to start full
repair works by the end of September.
The rehabilitation works on the road were stopped by the company some time ago following some issues with the Federal Government
A visit to the site on Thursday revealed
that officials and other workers of the company were already on the
road preparing for the work ahead.
Officials of the company said the road
rehabilitation would start from kilometre 12, otherwise known as the
”long bridge,” and would run towards the Shagamu Interchange.
The rehabilitation of the entire
expressway was awarded in 2013, at a cost of N167 billion by former
President Goodluck Jonathan.
The expressway is now being built to three lanes on both sides up to Sagamu Junction and two lanes up to Ibadan.
A fly-over and inter-change are being
built at the Redemption Camp area to solve the perennial traffic
gridlock on that section of the road.
The Federal Government terminated a
concession agreement on the maintenance of the road with Messrs
Bi-Courtney in 2012, because of alleged inability of the company to make
progress after four years.
Mike Olememen, a former minister of
works, had said in 2013 that the contract work consisted of
reconstruction of Lagos-Ibadan Dual Carriageway from Shagamu-Ibadan.
Olememen said that the road
reconstruction would commence at the Shagamu Interchange in Ogun State
and terminate at Ojoo Interchange in Ibadan, a total length of about 84
kilometres.
The road is made up of a two-lane dual
carriageway of 7.3 metres on each direction, 2.75 metres of outer hard
shoulder and 1.8 metres of inner hard shoulder and median.
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