FOLLOWING the killing of five pupils in an accident at Ikota, along the Lekki/Epe Expressway, Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused Governor Babatunde Fashola and the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) of negligence and criminal breach of the road contract.
Meanwhile, an accident at a particularly notorious section of Akure-Ilesha road in the Ondo State capital Wednesday claimed two lives when a truck lost control and rammed into an on-coming taxi.
The accident occurred two days after the Federal Government, through the Minister of Works, Mike Onolomemen, kicked off the reconstruction of the road that had taken scores of lives through mishaps.
Blaming Fashola and the construction company, PDP reaffirmed that the original contract on the road, now under ‘buy back’, remains a monumental fraud in this administration.
In a statement by the state Publicity Secretary of PDP, Taofik Gani yesterday, the party said several fatal accidents on the road may have been prevented if the contract agreement was dutifully monitored by the government.
According to him, “Such accident preventive measure is the provision of pedestrian bridges on the road. This provision has been breached by the concessionaires company and now, the road users are dying innocently.”
The party further described Fashola’s government as one of mediocrity, stating that the administration’s acclaimed best road has turned out to be theatre of recurrent fatal accidents due to its poor planning and construction.
Source: Guardian
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