Ikorodu Community Wants Bad Road Repaired

To avoid the annual flooding that cuts them off from other parts of the state, residents of Agbede village in Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, have appealed the state government to come to their rescue by constructing the only road leading to their community.

The community consists of 11 villages which includes Olunla, Olosugbo, Ebuwawa, Olorogbo, Odugbose, Adeite, Gulusoro, Shogosanya, Transformer, Elejaoro, and Ajegunle.

Some of the residents of the community decried the neglect of the road by the government despite making several efforts to get the state government to make the road motorable.

Evangelist Olusegun Famoritade, who is the chairman, Onward Community Development Association, Agbede-Olosugbo and 2nd vice chairman, Community Development Committee, Ikorodu North Local Council Development, said: “During the last rainy season, we were completely cut off from other parts of the state. Our children could not got to school and we were unable to transact any business.

Famoritade however, thanked Senator Bareehu Gbenga Ashafa, whom he said assisted in grading the road, but also called on him not to leave them in the same condition.

Mr. Aremu Olanrewaju, another resident of the community corroborated the statement of the CDA chairman on the deplorable state of the road and urged the state government to help them do something about the road.

Olanrewaju also lamented that apart from the bad road, Agbede community lacked basic social amenities, such as school, health centre and other infrastructure.

Mr. Adesanya Patrick, chairman of the Road Committee in the community, described the task of making the road motorable as herculean.

Mr. Adeniran Ogunbanwo, chairman, Idi-Orogbo CDA, and Secretary, CDC of the LCDA, said without the CDAs’ effort, there would not have been any access road to the community, and called on the government to do something about making the road motorable.