Sanwo-Olu calls on FG to fund Lagos-Badagry Expressway

The Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has called on the Federal Government to offer sufficient funding for the construction of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, stating that it serves as a trans-West African route.

Sanwo-Olu disclosed this on Monday while receiving the House of Representatives Committee on Works, headed by its Chairman, Abubakar Kabir Abubakar, during a courtesy visit to the Lagos House, Ikeja.

The Governor, who declared that serious action should be taken on the Otedola Bridge area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to prevent regular accidents, said that the Lagos-Badagry Expressway was not completely fixed despite being a global entry into five adjoining nations.

He said, “Lagos-Badagry expressway is one that I am aware of that doesn’t have sufficient funding. This is an international gateway. We heard that Ghana, Republic of Benin and Togo have done their own; it is trans West Africa corridor which five countries pass through. But it is only the Nigerian part of it that has not been fully fixed, which is from Seme border into Lagos and to the port.”

Sanwo-Olu added that his government has already worked on 18 kilometres of the highway, urging the Federal Government to extend it to Badagry.

He said, “Our desire is for them to make it 10-lanes highway. We are building for the future and we can put a rail in the middle of the corridor. It is an international road and it has capacity to take high level of traffic.”