30th October, 2015
With him are Federal Lawmaker, Hon. Jide Jimoh (left) and the Executive Secretary, Egbe-Idimu Local Council Development Area, Hon. Kunle Sanyaolu(right).
The people of Magbon Community in Olorunda LCDA, near Badagry, have cried out to the Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode over the deplorable state of their only access road.
Addressing the large placard carrying crowd that gathered at the market square, a community leader, Alhaji Idris Idowu said their predicament now requires divine intervention since “our community has been completely cut off from the toll gate, our only outlet to Badagry expressway. We are equally cut off from our neighbours.”
According to him, “our people are predominantly farmers. Due to this impassable road, we can no longer take our produce to nearby markets and people coming into the community to buy fish from us cannot do so any longer.
“Car owners in the community now park their vehicles at Ibiye or Oko Afo and trek several kilometers home. We are in a very hopeless state. Most workers now go to work with spare clothes in their bags which they wear when they get to the filling station at the expressway. This is what we suffer year in and out.
“We tried to get the attention of past governments to assist us but failed. We are being discriminated against because we are Aworis. An insider in the last administration told us so. If it is not true, why can’t they even grade the road for us?”
He added that “during the just concluded general elections, we mobilized our people to vote enmasse for APC, but up till this moment, not even a single palliative measure has been put in place as they promised during the campaign. We therefore call on Governor Ambode to speedily come to our aid.”
The women leader in the area, Alhaja a.k.a. Mama Change, also decried the bad state of the roads.
According to her, “we know the present administration has not properly taken off, but fixing this road will not take away much from them. Short distances that Okada riders usually charged N100, now costs as much as N300 because of. From the bus stop to Obele costs as much as N600. Our children don’t go to school anymore. We beg the governor to kindly come to our aid urgently.”
