Lagos Abeokuta Road: A Death Trap for Motorists

To say Nigeria is a failed State is to say the least. The country is currently in a comatose, and unfortunately no one seems to care. Its handlers are fast asleep. They are not only helpless but hapless.

Sincerely, nothing is working in this country except we are lying for ourselves from local government to State government, and State Government to the Federal Government. We are in a deep mess but we are in a complete state of denials. This 'roof we are standing under' (i.e this country) may soon fall on us all.

My point of writing is not on the State or local government where I reside for now, but the days are fast spent when I will be commenting on those entities.

My main concern today is on the deplorable state of the Lagos / Abeokuta Road. To say, the road is a death trap is to say the obvious. Almost every segment of the roads are fast becoming impassable, yet the Federal Government appears are in different to the plight of motorists passing through this route everyday.

From Ilogbo to Ilepa, Ilepa to Ifo; Kola to Toll gate, motorists spend hours to maneuver their ways with some having their vehicles broke down; yet, no one is in sight to do something about it.

The Juilus Berger company which was drafted to some portions of the failed road during eve of the General Election, I was reliably informed by some of their workers that they are just told to leave their machines and tools there so as to deceive the general public that they are working. What a government of deception.

Honestly speaking, for any government to leave a road in such deplorable state without palliative or concrete intervention smacks of government with a sense of responsibility and care for the masses.

The passengers and motorists passing this road are daily undergoing untold hardship without any apparent immediate or future alleviation of their sufferings and plights. Apart from the loss of manhour to traffic gridlock, the breakdown of vehicles, the wear and tears of the health of people passing through this route is one that should make any responsible government to come to their aid; but I'm dead wrong.

How on Earth do a road which is home to a former President of the Republic, and sitting Vice President will be in such horrible state. One can only imagine the sorry state of roads across the Federal highways across the country.

Elections are over and the promise of change and next level has gone to sleep. The country is back on auto pilot as nothing and no sector is working. There is complete breakdown of laws and orders in the North East, North West and North Central. The South East are not taken the back seat in the exacerbating spate of insecurity. It has gone so bad in the North that people are kidnapped for as low as ten thousand naira, yet some leaders still find it convenience to retain their titles of Commander in Chief and Chief Security Officers of the States. What an anomaly and aberration!

In a sane clime, responsible leaders and not dealers as we have it now would have resigned their appointments and positions for other to take over, it is not part of us in a country like ours where people hold on to position despite apparent failures and abysmal performance. I shake my head in total disgust.

Please can someone wake up Mr President up and tell him, the country is in inferno and he needs to deploy his fire extinguisher in terms of right policies and resources appropriately so as to save the country from untold and needless death.
Enough of go slow and needless frivolous traveling when the country needs him, and if he appears to be overwhelmed, can he please resign and allow capable hands to save the country from this rocky situation we have found ourselves.

With over 40 per cent of the country population being unemployed, ceaseless insurgency in the North, rising spate of kidnapping in the North, unwholesome state of infrastructures across the country, failing health and education system, I wonder what legacy this President and government intends to leave behind. This is because, to me, it has never been as bad as this, though I may be wrong which I however vehemently doubt.

Mr President please do something, the country is not working because you aren't working, or what you are doing is infinitesimal to the magnitude of problems bedvilling the people of this country.