Seven kilometres of Ikorodu Road from Jibowu flyover to
Maryland Underpass (Independence Tunnel) brightly lit up last night
shortly after the brief switching on ceremony performed by the Lagos
State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Monday, February 25,
2013.
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has lit up Ikorodu Road for safe driving at night.
This
is coming as the governor marked 2100 days in office Tuesday at a
ceremony held at the Lagos Television Ground, Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest
Nigeria. The governor led government officials to unveil the lighting of
the road last night, while he described the project as memorable.
The
lit up area covers seven kilometres of the road from Jibowu Flyover to
Maryland underpass. At the switch-on of the street light last night, the
entire seven kilometres stretch was fully lit up.
Ikorodu road is
now a delight to behold at night as the illuminated portion of the road
adds to the aesthetic beauty of Lagos. Meanwhile, Fashola marked his
2100 days in office today by taking a swipe at the People’s Democratic
Party, PDP for undue criticism of his administration.
The governor
was referring to PDP’s faulting of his administration’s budget
performance for last year, which stood at 89 percent overall
performance. Fashola said the PDP-led Federal Government had presided
over a budget that had been enmeshed in fraud, adding that over 50
percent of the past Federal Government’s budget had been fraudulent.
He
added that the 2013 budget of the PDP-led government was still
generating lots of controversies, saying that his administration had
been very transparent in terms of giving accurate budget performance of
his government. Fashola also accused the PDP of coming up with Good
Governance tour of states, knowing full well that it had no project to
showcase to the people.
The governor stated that Lagos State did
not need such a tour of its project under the guise of Good Governance
tour. He further said his administration had achieved a lot in the last
100 days in office, saying that plans were on to build 1008 flats at
Ijora Badia in a bid to improve the lives of the people.
Fashola
added that the government was aggressively preparing for the rainfall
through massive clearing of drainages across the state. He said the
early rains experienced this year spoke volumes of what to expect during
the year as the rains might be heavier.
On the traffic law,
Fashola said since its implementation, accidents involving okada had
dropped drastically, saying that from 650 accidents recorded in
September 2012, the accident rate had dropped to 100 as at January 2013.
He added that from death rate of 12 recorded from okada accident in
September last year, it has dropped to zero as at last month.
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