It is no longer news that the interstate Lagos-Ibadan Expressway requires more than physical rehabilitation. The road, constructed in the ‘70s, has not only fallen into bad shape, it has become a double carriage-way for robbery attacks on motorists and commuters, reports SAMUEL AWOYINFA
A trader cum housewife, Mrs. Joel (first name withheld) comes to Lagos from her Ibadan base once a week to buy stock for her thriving household care products business. She has done this business, plying the Lagos-Ibadan expressway for so many years, without any mishaps. She and some of her colleagues in the trade normally travelled in a hired commercial bus.
But something tragic happened last January. That fateful Friday, they had smooth business bargains as usual and they were on their way back to Ibadan when the bus suddenly developed a mechanical fault. It stopped abruptly on the long bridge, shortly after they descended the sloppy road after the popular but notorious Berger axis.
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