Residents seek govt’s intervention on roads in Oriade LCDA

By Motolani AbdulGafar

Some residents of Satellite Town, Oriade LCDA have called on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to tour the council area to have first hand information on the dilapidated state of roads in the area.

According to them, the excessive damage of the road is due to the negligence of the current council administration maintaining that road rehabilitation has not been fully put into consideration.

The residents under the auspices of Satellite Town Interest Forum (SIF) lamented that part of the disheartening situation is that inner roads (feeder roads) that should ordinarily be fixed by Oriade LCDA have been left unattended to by the council.

In a Save Our Soul letter to the Governor signed by its spokesman, Alhaji Yusuf Sani, a retired Comptroller of a para-military agency, the residents are demanding state government’s intervention.

The letter reads in part: “Our amiable governor, please consider this as an issue that demands urgent attention. We are calling on you in God’s name to come to our aid and save Satellite Town from the total collapse of infrastructure.

“There is no motorable road in Satellite Town, an area that was known as one of the prime places in Lagos mainland. All the roads have collapsed as a result of wears and tears and activities of tankers and containers.

“While we acknowledge the ongoing reconstruction of Marwa Road, which has brought pains to residents, every other road in the area is in a bad shape. Even the inner roads (feeder roads) that should ordinarily be fixed by Oriade Local Council Development Authority, LCDA, have been left unattended to by the LCDA. Craters are common sights on these roads. Since the callous citing of tank farms in the area (which) has made petrol tankers to take over Marwa Road, Finiger and even Abule Ado Road by Tantalisers, the inner roads that are main artries are death traps. The link road from Navy Town to Close one is bad. And this is one of the few roads free from tanker menace.

“Assembly Road that links the Closes and other estates in the neighborhood is not passable. So bad are the roads that commercial motorcycles (Okadas) avoid them. Community Road, which is another major road connecting Shell Estate, Union Bank Estate, First Bank Estate, Chevron Estate, Unipetrol Estate, Daily Times Estate, Agip Estate , Mobil Estate, CBN Estate 1 and other estates is also not motorable. Your Excellency, Satellite Town is suffering total neglect.

“Sir, this is an area with an enlightened populace including a large number of retirees , who had meritoriously served this country. It is disappointing that the once beautiful and serene environment they knew has suddenly become an urban slum, “they lamented