By KEMI KASUMU
No few than two persons were crushed to death as container from utility vehicle fell on two commercial buses at Kola Bus Stop within the Alagbado-Tollgate axis of Lagos-Abeokuta expressway in Lagos State, on Saturday.
Eyewitness, in a video showing the incident, said the container fell on two passenger buses with the two passengers trapped and crushed to death in one of them, while others jumped out for safety from the other.
He said, “It happened just now in my presence. I witnessed the falling of the container as it happened and I jumped out from my bus immediately.
“Now, this is what we are saying that they blame us for talking about. Maybe when they finish killing all of us they will be okay. Because I don’t see the reason road is this bad and (federal) government will do nothing about it,” he complained.
The administration of Muhammadu Buhari did the road from Oshodi through Abule-Egba in a do-and-be-reinbursed arrangement with then Lagos State Governor Akinwumi Ambode, paid for by the Federal Government, and Abuja directly did the side from Sango-Ota to Abule-Egba from Abule-Egba remaining the other side of the dualised highway from Abule-Egba to Sango-Ota to be fixed.
Many Nigerians on that axis had hoped that an expressway a Northerner in power had considerably fixed, remaining a small portion between Abule-Egba on one side to Sango-Ota, should easily attract the interest of a President that claims Lagos State as his homebase in Abuja, to be completed.
Seven months after his inauguration, the Renewed Hope of the former Lagos State Governor, President Bola Tinubu, has not factored the now death trap of a road along the Alagbado-Tollgate axis on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway in its agenda.
The people, in the meantime, have continued to cry out for help that their lives may be saved from incessant utility vehicle collapses that are witnessed on the road daily.
