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.
News Credit: Business Day
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