By RESIDENTS, STUDENTS, MOTORISTS PROTEST DEPLORABLE STATE OF LAGOS-BADAGRY EXPRESSWAY
Residents and some students on Monday defied the heavy rainfall to protest the deplorable state of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, describing it as a road of anguish and pain.
The Badagry Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria who monitored the protest reported that residents blocked the popular Badagry roundabout for hours earlier in the day.
They stormed the roundabout with placards bearing various inscriptions such as, “Fix Lagos/Badagry Expressway. Our businesses are dying’’; “Bad Road, Our pregnant women are having miscarriages’’; and “We are not at war, Remove checkpoints on our road’’; “We are losing man-hours.’’
Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, the President, Women Arise Initiative, who led the protest, said the road had become a route of anguish and pain.
“We are in the rain today not because we like it, but because we want to make some demands; we are moving from Badagry to Mile 2.
“We are here because the Lagos-Badagry Express road has continued to serve as a route of anguish and pain; the state of the road is deplorable.’’
“We are seeing our economy ruined, we have seen women having stillbirths. We have seen our road becoming a road to the hospital and the mortuary, the time has come for us to rise up in unity.’’
