Community hopes govt engineers visit  will pave way for better roads

By Edith Igbokwe

The hope of getting their bad roads repaired by the state government heightened last week when the government officials inspected some of the roads in Ariyori-Ijaye community, Mafoluku, Oshodi.

It was gathered that the residents, through their Community Development Association, had earlier this year, written letter to the Lagos State Government seeking help on the rehabilitation of their dilapidated roads.

In response to their request, some engineers from the Lagos State Government came to the community last week to take measurements of the three streets including Branco, Ijaye and Obisanya to commence the rehabilitation work.

Earlier in June after the submission of the appeal letter, a Lagos State Engineer and inspection team visited the community to map out the streets to be rehabilitated.

Again in July, the team revisited the streets to check the state of the drainage system to address the issue of flood during rainfalls.

Speaking to ECHONEWS on the project, the Chairman of Ariyori-Ijaye CDA, Alhaji Rasaq Mabinuori, said the hope of the community has been raised with the inspection.

He said they are curiously waiting for the commencement of the rehabilitation as he appealed to the government to be quick.

He noted that the roads have been one of the major challenges in the community, saying if done as promised, they will ease movement and boost small and medium businesses.