By Charles Kumolu
LAGOS — Residents of Ikotun in Alimosho Local Government Area in Lagos State have appealed to the state government and the local government to reconstruct the Ikotun-Cele road to give them a sense of belonging.
The residents who spoke under the aegis of Alimosho Residents Association, ARA, said they had been experiencing excruciating pains travelling through the road in the last five years without government doing anything to alleviate their pains, pointing out that the state government had been busy providing good roads for the rich in the mainland, leaving those that gave them bulk vote to win their elections.
Spokesman for the residents, Chief Idowu Temitope, who spoke in an interview with Vanguard said: ‘’We appeal to Governor Babtunde Fashola to reconstruct this road that government had promised us times without number that it would rehabilitate.
“The millions of voters living in Ikotun are also stakeholders in Lagos. It is not only when the government needs our votes that politicians come to make empty promises to us.
‘’The Ijegun-Jakande Estate Road which the government started had been abadoned by the contractors for some years now.
’’Apart from the Ikotun–Cele road or the Ijegun-Jakande Estate Road, there are several roads in the area which the local government has not rehabilitated for over 10 years now.”
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