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00:00:20joints at the Kara bridge section
00:00:22of the Lagos Cibatron Expressway undergo repairs,
00:00:26eyewitness report highlights how the intervention has brought its own.
00:00:30challenges with traffic buildup and longer journeys
00:00:34for motoris and commuters during the first
00:00:37week of work. we also return to kara state
00:00:41where the deteriorating condition
00:00:43of the rele road has prompted renewed calls for
00:00:47urgent government intervention. stay with us for the
00:00:51details.
00:00:54repair work on the damage expansion joints at the kara
00:00:58bread section
00:00:59of the Lagos ibadu expressway is in full swing, while
00:01:03the repairs are expected to improve safety and the long-term
00:01:07condition
00:01:08of the bridge, the immediate reality for motoris and
00:01:11commuters has been slower movement, traffic buildup
00:01:15and longer travel times. Let's take a look at the first
00:01:19week
00:01:19of the repair work from the commencement of construction
00:01:23and traffic management efforts to the experience of road
00:01:27users navigating the...
00:01:30corridor.
00:01:34On Tuesday, September 8, repairs
00:01:37of the damaged expansion joints on the outbound section
00:01:40of the carib bridge along Lego Sibadon Expressway
00:01:43began. The contractor mobilized to the site and
00:01:47of immediately commence to
00:01:51of work.
00:01:52of
00:01:56of
00:01:58of
00:02:08The repairs come after five previous postponents by the
00:02:12of federal ministry of
00:02:12works.
00:02:27of The first phase involves chipping. way the
00:02:30of asphalt around the damaged joint to expose the
00:02:34reinforcement before reconnecting and casting the
00:02:38of joints. of
00:02:46of of
00:03:12As you can see the inband is not
00:03:16that terrible yet, so we are working on this outband
00:03:20because it's very, very terribly damaged and it's causing a lot of
00:03:24accidents, the standards are using
00:03:27in
00:03:29of reconstruction. this expansion
00:03:31a joints is
00:03:33a of the high standard, according and we are
00:03:37following the specification of federal ministry of works, as you can
00:03:41know our honorable minister is very hard-working
00:03:44man, he doesn't want anything slow or
00:03:48done shortily, he's very quick to response when you
00:03:52talk about fixing of our roads in Nigeria and in the
00:03:56of the highest standard using CROCP.
00:04:00has continuous repost concrete pavement which we have
00:04:04been using these
00:04:04days.
00:04:12with only half
00:04:13of the carriage way available to motorists, the restriction quickly begins
00:04:16to affect vehicular
00:04:17movement.
00:04:28of
00:04:40of
00:05:10of in
00:05:44Just few hours into the first day of work, traffic had built
00:05:47up, stretching several kilometers backwards towards
00:05:51Berger and beyond, as motorists made their way
00:05:54slowly through the narrow
00:05:56section.
00:06:44as you can see now it's causing a huge traffic at the back and it's
00:06:48very very inconvenient for us so the government should try and do something to the road
00:06:52so that we have easy access from that
00:06:54end from that end also this
00:06:58spot is very bad so whenever i drop to this place it's very bad so i'm
00:07:02really happy they are doing it now so that is
00:07:04very
00:07:08we have no ch for a while well it's still okay because the traffic is going
00:07:12smooth so what's your expectation?
00:07:15well, if they can do it very well for us, we are going to be happy. they have
00:07:19repaired this road now more than four or five times and this thing is causing us
00:07:23lot apart from the causing us our time, delay and every other thing,
00:07:27and it we should also consider that also. i will just appeal to
00:07:31government, they should just get a lasting solution to this
00:07:34issue. the very first thing we did in terms of traffic management with other
00:07:38traffic uh management agency is to ensure
00:07:41adequate. division the carriage way,
00:07:45this carriage way is about 14.4
00:07:48meters in width, and we've divided into
00:07:527.2 so that they can work on half part
00:07:56the um carriage way, traffic can move on the other part the carriage
00:08:00way. now like they are working already, we are responsible
00:08:04for the entire traffic management of this area. when i mean
00:08:07traffic management, mean traffic
00:08:10control, our um every duty to trucks are
00:08:14positioned so that if there is any echop there can be
00:08:18quick intervention unlike a situation where would just be calling into
00:08:22truck we are standby ones that will quickly remove any
00:08:26broken down vehicle so that the traffic fl can be
00:08:29seamless so we are not just here to observe we are here
00:08:33to manage traffic if we are looking at it from a far we will have
00:08:36seen we are more than enough personnel here handling this
00:08:40project for the rest the period of this project, we are here
00:08:4424 hours, even at night, even at
00:08:47night, night
00:08:49inclusive,
00:09:03as the repairs running today's road users continue to experience
00:09:07grid lock along the stretch, largely due to the high volume
00:09:11of traffic passing. through the narroid caution, particularly
00:09:15during peak periods when commuters are returning from work or
00:09:18traveling out of
00:09:19lagas.
00:09:48Breakdowns and driver impatience have also added to the
00:09:51congestion.
00:10:21Iwitness videos capture some the peak moments showing the extend
00:10:25the grid lock and instances where some commuters were forced to
00:10:29track.
00:11:10after you take bike from secretariat down to
00:11:14beer then now walk from begga down to this place it's
00:11:18it's really and i spent like over an hour year
00:11:22abon street car to take me to
00:11:25my to my house so it's really every
00:11:29so I just have to deal with it, they are doing a good job but
00:11:33I have to get it depending the time they'll finish but we just
00:11:36decide that they they do it on time within a few days probably three
00:11:40four days a week sh maximum a week because I can't continue facing
00:11:44this on daily basis every day I have track from here when I'm going to walk i
00:11:48ch from ikeja to here now I'm going back I'm tracking from here to ikeja back because there is
00:11:52lot of traffic people are suffering so so I'm very, very happy for Nigeria
00:11:56government to intervent in this issue, despite the disruption to motorists and
00:12:00commuters, the repairs are considered necessary and must
00:12:04be
00:12:04completed,
00:12:14why we are taking two weeks is because the curing the
00:12:17concrete, we needs a minimum of some
00:12:21days, normal concrete is... supposed to
00:12:25last for 28 days, but this one we're using special
00:12:28concrete to achieve a grade of 60, which will
00:12:32just take few days to attain the strength that's that can absorb the
00:12:36shocks the traffic on it. it's going to take a long time before
00:12:40maintenance, except there
00:12:42is
00:12:45measure.
00:12:49at the time of filing this report, repair on one half the
00:12:52expansion joint section had been completed. with a concrete
00:12:56left to cure before the section can be reopened to
00:13:00traffic.
00:13:12for commuters on this busy corridor, the message is simple:
00:13:16trade speed for patients while the maintenance work
00:13:19lasts.
00:13:34The federal ministry of works maintains that the intervention will restore the
00:13:37damaged expansion joints and provide safer and smoother
00:13:41passage for motorists once
00:13:44completed.
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00:15:02an eyewitness video captures the moment section
00:15:05the sokoto central market was engulved by
00:15:08fire destroying several shops and goods. the fire
00:15:12reportedly started at about 8:30 p.m. on Sunday
00:15:16September 13. firefighters walked to contain the
00:15:19blaze while residents also joined efforts to rescue some
00:15:23goods and prevent. for the
00:15:25losses,
00:15:33a video that went viral, woman is saying empty.
00:15:37of waste into a drainage channel and onto the road
00:15:41during heavy down in ejibu legal
00:15:44state, the woman identified as nearly monday,
00:15:48restaurant operator was subsequently arrested, rain
00:15:52before an environmental and special offenses caught and
00:15:56sentenced to one month in prison for environmental
00:15:59infraction.
00:16:37is concerns about the potential damage to road infrastructure, the
00:16:41witness reporter wonders how did the vehicle gets there in the
00:16:45first place and what happens when vehicles start using
00:16:49walkways as alternative
00:16:51rous?
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00:17:34the rele road inkara state continues to to
00:17:37deteriorate, worse and by persistent rainfall,
00:17:41the road has become increasingly difficult to navigate,
00:17:45as motoris and commuters renew call on the relevant
00:17:48authorities to undertake urgent repairs before the road
00:17:52becomes impossible.
00:17:56ilao dosun state is the last community on the
00:18:00state's northern bandy sharing a border with neighboring
00:18:04quara state.
00:18:14This corridor the offile federal road is motor
00:18:18is delight with clean asphalt and smooth traffic,
00:18:22interstate transport moves without a
00:18:25hitch.
00:18:44but that comfort vanishes the moment you cross the boundary into
00:18:47aren inquara
00:18:48state.
00:19:06It's an instant transition. from smooth tomack to crated
00:19:09wasteland, forcing vehicles to slow to a literal
00:19:13crawl.
00:19:27erin community is the gateway to the
00:19:31north and this road has been in this condition, this bad
00:19:35condition for the past two three years now. and we have been doing a
00:19:39lot, we have been consulting government
00:19:42agencies, the federal ministry of works, fermer, we have written
00:19:46lot of letters, we have submitted letters to them that they should come and assist us to
00:19:50do this road, because the road has become an avoc to the commuters
00:19:54and the community, even the KC, our father, he
00:19:58has intervined in doing a lot of things on this on this road, that's why people can
00:20:01still manage uh on this road, if not
00:20:05that i don't think people will be able to
00:20:38Ironically, faded rusting project sign post
00:20:42stands by the roadside, declaring that the contract for the road's
00:20:45rehabilitation was awarded long ago.
00:21:04But on the ground, there's absolutely no evidence of
00:21:07taxpayers money at
00:21:09work.
00:21:33With the rainy season now its peak, navigating
00:21:37this stretch of road has become increasingly difficult for
00:21:41commercial drivers and haullage
00:21:43operators.
00:21:52"we be are pleading for the state governor to help us to because we are going to
00:21:56the racing now so this
00:21:58road now is very is very destroyed you please from this from
00:22:02contact to yourfa there's no way you can move and the are really
00:22:05loss we beg them to give us this our this what you can get the grassroot
00:22:09people can be enjoying we pled for them our governor to please to come and
00:22:13rest for this road but
00:22:14it is said that this road is federal road is federal road the
00:22:18federal is the federal" say they are they are together and think you can play to
00:22:22the federal, federal can help us to to do something, even though if the state can
00:22:26do it, the state we do it and we still collect the something from the federal government
00:22:30again, we pled for them to shook the rest, we are going to the
00:22:33races now, that's what we are playing for the state government and the
00:22:37federal,
00:22:45beyond the compounding tol of shock absorbers and broken
00:22:49axles. lies a far darker fear in
00:22:52security, in what way has this
00:22:54been affecting your personal? yes we are personing us, because the even though including
00:22:58the all this the vehicle expenses we are spending on excessly is given all
00:23:02delay and the time of insecurity now which is there is
00:23:06no we were targeting our movement and it does not give us a free movement to
00:23:09move so it give us delay we don't have lot of time to move we please
00:23:13for the federal government should security where there is no security this where
00:23:17the road supposed to if there is road ' believe there's no way this
00:23:21b will come and stay along of our front to stopping us, but because the
00:23:25bad road
00:23:26everywhere, the
00:23:30economic paralysis is invisible, air lays
00:23:33one's vibrant economy is drying
00:23:36up,
00:23:49seriously. The road has been in bad ship for years, it has
00:23:53been affecting us, as passengers now prefer other
00:23:57roads to ocean states instead of
00:23:59hearing.
00:24:26In the absence of government intervention, local youth have stepped
00:24:30into the
00:24:30gap,
00:24:36armed with shovels and rare determination, they harvest sand from
00:24:40nearby bushes to temporary plug the holes, surviving
00:24:44entirely on the voluntary tips of grateful
00:24:46motorists, our good boys of
00:25:24I they pray for them so that making the remember all the
00:25:28real people here because our road is no good at all at
00:25:31all that is why I they pray for them
00:25:34say the help them make
00:25:38them do road make everything they all right just
00:25:42anybody you just pity our people they
00:25:46just take 200 just take 300 so that I
00:25:50borrow jiger, i borrow
00:25:53sof, i borrow apaper
00:25:56pan so that all the money they give us i the
00:26:00go settle them for outside so. any amount remain
00:26:03i just here to 2 200 or 100, i don't see
00:26:07anybody government to help
00:26:09us.
00:26:21now we are appealing to the government, the federal government of nigeria under
00:26:25the able of our president,
00:26:27presidentu to please come to our aid,
00:26:31this will have become a dead trap
00:26:33to for us, please we are appeling to the government, the federal government to
00:26:37assist us to come and reconstruct
00:26:39this for us. okay, if this road is reconstructed, what will be
00:26:43the benefit to the community and to Nigerians generally? there are a lot of
00:26:46benefits, benefits, because this road, as I told you, Erinlee
00:26:50is the bandary between ocean and quara state and the gateway
00:26:54between south and northern Nigeria, so if this road is
00:26:58now reconstructed, I believe it will serve lot of purpose for us
00:27:02because...
00:27:02this is road that people pass
00:27:04from,
00:27:14for Ariel, this road is lifeline that has been left to
00:27:18decay,
00:27:27the collective cry from this border community to the
00:27:30government is to fix the road, Before the economy of Ariel
00:27:34completely
00:27:35collapses.