Motorists, commuters go through hell at Joju, Owode bus-stops in Ogun

Motorists and commuters are going through hell around Joju and owode bus-stops, located along the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway in Ogun state, south-west Nigeria.

Surveillance by Vicnuel reveals that the hell is daily as motorists and commuters plying the expressway do spend hours on hold-up with the bad, deplorable and unbearable nature of the road.

The hell is always at its peck early in the morning and late in the evening for the motorists and commuters.

But, the expressway belongs to the federal government and it is the business of the Muhammed Buhari-led regime to fix it, not that of the Ogun state government.

On Thursday, November 3, our correspondent left Ogba area of Lagos about 5.30am for Ifo in Ogun state, along the expressway.

From toll gate, a border point between Lagos and Ogun state, through sango ota to Ifo, motorists were at standstill for hours, while commuters struggle to go through the massy, water-logged road.

Monday Samuel, a motorist who was going to Abeokuta through the expressway lamented that he spend 45 hours on the sango ota bridge, trying to link-up Ifo, en-route Abeokuta in Ogun state.

 However, Mama Emma, a trader who normally shuttles between Agege in Lagos to Ifo market to buy raw, processed garri, said that commercial bus drivers have capitalized on the bad road to increase their transport fares by more than 100%.

“I used to pay N300 from Ifo market to Agege. But, with the bad road caused by torrential rains, I now pay between N600 to N800 depending on the number of bags of unprocessed garri”, she said.

But, Muyiwa, a commercial motor driver, popularly known as a danfo driver plying Agege-Ifo route said that the bad road is causing bad business for them.

“It takes  me longer time to convey passengers from Agege in Lagos to Bank bus-stop in Ogun state due to the bad road”, Muyiwa said.

He argued that this has effects on how much he takes home daily from the business after settling all sorts of revenue collectors stationed at all the bus-stops along the expressway.