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[00:00:20] joints at the Kara bridge section
[00:00:22] of the Lagos Cibatron Expressway undergo repairs,
[00:00:26] eyewitness report highlights how the intervention has brought its own.
[00:00:30] challenges with traffic buildup and longer journeys
[00:00:34] for motoris and commuters during the first
[00:00:37] week of work. we also return to kara state
[00:00:41] where the deteriorating condition
[00:00:43] of the rele road has prompted renewed calls for
[00:00:47] urgent government intervention. stay with us for the
[00:00:51] details.
[00:00:54] repair work on the damage expansion joints at the kara
[00:00:58] bread section
[00:00:59] of the Lagos ibadu expressway is in full swing, while
[00:01:03] the repairs are expected to improve safety and the long-term
[00:01:07] condition
[00:01:08] of the bridge, the immediate reality for motoris and
[00:01:11] commuters has been slower movement, traffic buildup
[00:01:15] and longer travel times. Let's take a look at the first
[00:01:19] week
[00:01:19] of the repair work from the commencement of construction
[00:01:23] and traffic management efforts to the experience of road
[00:01:27] users navigating the...
[00:01:30] corridor.
[00:01:34] On Tuesday, September 8, repairs
[00:01:37] of the damaged expansion joints on the outbound section
[00:01:40] of the carib bridge along Lego Sibadon Expressway
[00:01:43] began. The contractor mobilized to the site and
[00:01:47] of immediately commence to
[00:01:51] of work.
[00:01:52] of
[00:01:56] of
[00:01:58] of
[00:02:08] The repairs come after five previous postponents by the
[00:02:12] of federal ministry of
[00:02:12] works.
[00:02:27] of The first phase involves chipping. way the
[00:02:30] of asphalt around the damaged joint to expose the
[00:02:34] reinforcement before reconnecting and casting the
[00:02:38] of joints. of
[00:02:46] of of
[00:03:12] As you can see the inband is not
[00:03:16] that terrible yet, so we are working on this outband
[00:03:20] because it's very, very terribly damaged and it's causing a lot of
[00:03:24] accidents, the standards are using
[00:03:27] in
[00:03:29] of reconstruction. this expansion
[00:03:31] a joints is
[00:03:33] a of the high standard, according and we are
[00:03:37] following the specification of federal ministry of works, as you can
[00:03:41] know our honorable minister is very hard-working
[00:03:44] man, he doesn't want anything slow or
[00:03:48] done shortily, he's very quick to response when you
[00:03:52] talk about fixing of our roads in Nigeria and in the
[00:03:56] of the highest standard using CROCP.
[00:04:00] has continuous repost concrete pavement which we have
[00:04:04] been using these
[00:04:04] days.
[00:04:12] with only half
[00:04:13] of the carriage way available to motorists, the restriction quickly begins
[00:04:16] to affect vehicular
[00:04:17] movement.
[00:04:28] of
[00:04:40] of
[00:05:10] of in
[00:05:44] Just few hours into the first day of work, traffic had built
[00:05:47] up, stretching several kilometers backwards towards
[00:05:51] Berger and beyond, as motorists made their way
[00:05:54] slowly through the narrow
[00:05:56] section.
[00:06:44] as you can see now it's causing a huge traffic at the back and it's
[00:06:48] very very inconvenient for us so the government should try and do something to the road
[00:06:52] so that we have easy access from that
[00:06:54] end from that end also this
[00:06:58] spot is very bad so whenever i drop to this place it's very bad so i'm
[00:07:02] really happy they are doing it now so that is
[00:07:04] very
[00:07:08] we have no ch for a while well it's still okay because the traffic is going
[00:07:12] smooth so what's your expectation?
[00:07:15] well, if they can do it very well for us, we are going to be happy. they have
[00:07:19] repaired this road now more than four or five times and this thing is causing us
[00:07:23] lot apart from the causing us our time, delay and every other thing,
[00:07:27] and it we should also consider that also. i will just appeal to
[00:07:31] government, they should just get a lasting solution to this
[00:07:34] issue. the very first thing we did in terms of traffic management with other
[00:07:38] traffic uh management agency is to ensure
[00:07:41] adequate. division the carriage way,
[00:07:45] this carriage way is about 14.4
[00:07:48] meters in width, and we've divided into
[00:07:52] 7.2 so that they can work on half part
[00:07:56] the um carriage way, traffic can move on the other part the carriage
[00:08:00] way. now like they are working already, we are responsible
[00:08:04] for the entire traffic management of this area. when i mean
[00:08:07] traffic management, mean traffic
[00:08:10] control, our um every duty to trucks are
[00:08:14] positioned so that if there is any echop there can be
[00:08:18] quick intervention unlike a situation where would just be calling into
[00:08:22] truck we are standby ones that will quickly remove any
[00:08:26] broken down vehicle so that the traffic fl can be
[00:08:29] seamless so we are not just here to observe we are here
[00:08:33] to manage traffic if we are looking at it from a far we will have
[00:08:36] seen we are more than enough personnel here handling this
[00:08:40] project for the rest the period of this project, we are here
[00:08:44] 24 hours, even at night, even at
[00:08:47] night, night
[00:08:49] inclusive,
[00:09:03] as the repairs running today's road users continue to experience
[00:09:07] grid lock along the stretch, largely due to the high volume
[00:09:11] of traffic passing. through the narroid caution, particularly
[00:09:15] during peak periods when commuters are returning from work or
[00:09:18] traveling out of
[00:09:19] lagas.
[00:09:48] Breakdowns and driver impatience have also added to the
[00:09:51] congestion.
[00:10:21] Iwitness videos capture some the peak moments showing the extend
[00:10:25] the grid lock and instances where some commuters were forced to
[00:10:29] track.
[00:11:10] after you take bike from secretariat down to
[00:11:14] beer then now walk from begga down to this place it's
[00:11:18] it's really and i spent like over an hour year
[00:11:22] abon street car to take me to
[00:11:25] my to my house so it's really every
[00:11:29] so I just have to deal with it, they are doing a good job but
[00:11:33] I have to get it depending the time they'll finish but we just
[00:11:36] decide that they they do it on time within a few days probably three
[00:11:40] four days a week sh maximum a week because I can't continue facing
[00:11:44] this on daily basis every day I have track from here when I'm going to walk i
[00:11:48] ch from ikeja to here now I'm going back I'm tracking from here to ikeja back because there is
[00:11:52] lot of traffic people are suffering so so I'm very, very happy for Nigeria
[00:11:56] government to intervent in this issue, despite the disruption to motorists and
[00:12:00] commuters, the repairs are considered necessary and must
[00:12:04] be
[00:12:04] completed,
[00:12:14] why we are taking two weeks is because the curing the
[00:12:17] concrete, we needs a minimum of some
[00:12:21] days, normal concrete is... supposed to
[00:12:25] last for 28 days, but this one we're using special
[00:12:28] concrete to achieve a grade of 60, which will
[00:12:32] just take few days to attain the strength that's that can absorb the
[00:12:36] shocks the traffic on it. it's going to take a long time before
[00:12:40] maintenance, except there
[00:12:42] is
[00:12:45] measure.
[00:12:49] at the time of filing this report, repair on one half the
[00:12:52] expansion joint section had been completed. with a concrete
[00:12:56] left to cure before the section can be reopened to
[00:13:00] traffic.
[00:13:12] for commuters on this busy corridor, the message is simple:
[00:13:16] trade speed for patients while the maintenance work
[00:13:19] lasts.
[00:13:34] The federal ministry of works maintains that the intervention will restore the
[00:13:37] damaged expansion joints and provide safer and smoother
[00:13:41] passage for motorists once
[00:13:44] completed.
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[00:15:02] an eyewitness video captures the moment section
[00:15:05] the sokoto central market was engulved by
[00:15:08] fire destroying several shops and goods. the fire
[00:15:12] reportedly started at about 8:30 p.m. on Sunday
[00:15:16] September 13. firefighters walked to contain the
[00:15:19] blaze while residents also joined efforts to rescue some
[00:15:23] goods and prevent. for the
[00:15:25] losses,
[00:15:33] a video that went viral, woman is saying empty.
[00:15:37] of waste into a drainage channel and onto the road
[00:15:41] during heavy down in ejibu legal
[00:15:44] state, the woman identified as nearly monday,
[00:15:48] restaurant operator was subsequently arrested, rain
[00:15:52] before an environmental and special offenses caught and
[00:15:56] sentenced to one month in prison for environmental
[00:15:59] infraction.
[00:16:37] is concerns about the potential damage to road infrastructure, the
[00:16:41] witness reporter wonders how did the vehicle gets there in the
[00:16:45] first place and what happens when vehicles start using
[00:16:49] walkways as alternative
[00:16:51] rous?
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[00:17:34] the rele road inkara state continues to to
[00:17:37] deteriorate, worse and by persistent rainfall,
[00:17:41] the road has become increasingly difficult to navigate,
[00:17:45] as motoris and commuters renew call on the relevant
[00:17:48] authorities to undertake urgent repairs before the road
[00:17:52] becomes impossible.
[00:17:56] ilao dosun state is the last community on the
[00:18:00] state's northern bandy sharing a border with neighboring
[00:18:04] quara state.
[00:18:14] This corridor the offile federal road is motor
[00:18:18] is delight with clean asphalt and smooth traffic,
[00:18:22] interstate transport moves without a
[00:18:25] hitch.
[00:18:44] but that comfort vanishes the moment you cross the boundary into
[00:18:47] aren inquara
[00:18:48] state.
[00:19:06] It's an instant transition. from smooth tomack to crated
[00:19:09] wasteland, forcing vehicles to slow to a literal
[00:19:13] crawl.
[00:19:27] erin community is the gateway to the
[00:19:31] north and this road has been in this condition, this bad
[00:19:35] condition for the past two three years now. and we have been doing a
[00:19:39] lot, we have been consulting government
[00:19:42] agencies, the federal ministry of works, fermer, we have written
[00:19:46] lot of letters, we have submitted letters to them that they should come and assist us to
[00:19:50] do this road, because the road has become an avoc to the commuters
[00:19:54] and the community, even the KC, our father, he
[00:19:58] has intervined in doing a lot of things on this on this road, that's why people can
[00:20:01] still manage uh on this road, if not
[00:20:05] that i don't think people will be able to
[00:20:38] Ironically, faded rusting project sign post
[00:20:42] stands by the roadside, declaring that the contract for the road's
[00:20:45] rehabilitation was awarded long ago.
[00:21:04] But on the ground, there's absolutely no evidence of
[00:21:07] taxpayers money at
[00:21:09] work.
[00:21:33] With the rainy season now its peak, navigating
[00:21:37] this stretch of road has become increasingly difficult for
[00:21:41] commercial drivers and haullage
[00:21:43] operators.
[00:21:52] "we be are pleading for the state governor to help us to because we are going to
[00:21:56] the racing now so this
[00:21:58] road now is very is very destroyed you please from this from
[00:22:02] contact to yourfa there's no way you can move and the are really
[00:22:05] loss we beg them to give us this our this what you can get the grassroot
[00:22:09] people can be enjoying we pled for them our governor to please to come and
[00:22:13] rest for this road but
[00:22:14] it is said that this road is federal road is federal road the
[00:22:18] federal is the federal" say they are they are together and think you can play to
[00:22:22] the federal, federal can help us to to do something, even though if the state can
[00:22:26] do it, the state we do it and we still collect the something from the federal government
[00:22:30] again, we pled for them to shook the rest, we are going to the
[00:22:33] races now, that's what we are playing for the state government and the
[00:22:37] federal,
[00:22:45] beyond the compounding tol of shock absorbers and broken
[00:22:49] axles. lies a far darker fear in
[00:22:52] security, in what way has this
[00:22:54] been affecting your personal? yes we are personing us, because the even though including
[00:22:58] the all this the vehicle expenses we are spending on excessly is given all
[00:23:02] delay and the time of insecurity now which is there is
[00:23:06] no we were targeting our movement and it does not give us a free movement to
[00:23:09] move so it give us delay we don't have lot of time to move we please
[00:23:13] for the federal government should security where there is no security this where
[00:23:17] the road supposed to if there is road ' believe there's no way this
[00:23:21] b will come and stay along of our front to stopping us, but because the
[00:23:25] bad road
[00:23:26] everywhere, the
[00:23:30] economic paralysis is invisible, air lays
[00:23:33] one's vibrant economy is drying
[00:23:36] up,
[00:23:49] seriously. The road has been in bad ship for years, it has
[00:23:53] been affecting us, as passengers now prefer other
[00:23:57] roads to ocean states instead of
[00:23:59] hearing.
[00:24:26] In the absence of government intervention, local youth have stepped
[00:24:30] into the
[00:24:30] gap,
[00:24:36] armed with shovels and rare determination, they harvest sand from
[00:24:40] nearby bushes to temporary plug the holes, surviving
[00:24:44] entirely on the voluntary tips of grateful
[00:24:46] motorists, our good boys of
[00:25:24] I they pray for them so that making the remember all the
[00:25:28] real people here because our road is no good at all at
[00:25:31] all that is why I they pray for them
[00:25:34] say the help them make
[00:25:38] them do road make everything they all right just
[00:25:42] anybody you just pity our people they
[00:25:46] just take 200 just take 300 so that I
[00:25:50] borrow jiger, i borrow
[00:25:53] sof, i borrow apaper
[00:25:56] pan so that all the money they give us i the
[00:26:00] go settle them for outside so. any amount remain
[00:26:03] i just here to 2 200 or 100, i don't see
[00:26:07] anybody government to help
[00:26:09] us.
[00:26:21] now we are appealing to the government, the federal government of nigeria under
[00:26:25] the able of our president,
[00:26:27] presidentu to please come to our aid,
[00:26:31] this will have become a dead trap
[00:26:33] to for us, please we are appeling to the government, the federal government to
[00:26:37] assist us to come and reconstruct
[00:26:39] this for us. okay, if this road is reconstructed, what will be
[00:26:43] the benefit to the community and to Nigerians generally? there are a lot of
[00:26:46] benefits, benefits, because this road, as I told you, Erinlee
[00:26:50] is the bandary between ocean and quara state and the gateway
[00:26:54] between south and northern Nigeria, so if this road is
[00:26:58] now reconstructed, I believe it will serve lot of purpose for us
[00:27:02] because...
[00:27:02] this is road that people pass
[00:27:04] from,
[00:27:14] for Ariel, this road is lifeline that has been left to
[00:27:18] decay,
[00:27:27] the collective cry from this border community to the
[00:27:30] government is to fix the road, Before the economy of Ariel
[00:27:34] completely
[00:27:35] collapses.