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REJOINDER ON ONGOING REHABILITATION OBA ERINWOLE ROAD AND REQUEST FOR FLYOVER BRIDGES

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In response to our publication on substandard road rehabilitation ongoing at Oba Erinwole road, the Press Officer at Ministry of Works & Infrastructure said the road project is being implemented according to standard entrenchment and scope of work, stating “the contested road was awarded in Two (2) Phases. Phase 1 was the sectional reconstruction of failed sections especially towards the canal.

The scope of work at this section includes provision of new adequately-sized drainages and culverts, scarification of failed areas covering a total length of 1923.85metres, building up the scarified failed areas with compacted stone base and laying of asphalt. While Phase 2 addresses milling the entire 4km stretch of the road surface and laying of Asphalt, among other activities.”

“The contractor has completed the phase 1 activities vis-à-vis; the reinforced concrete drains are reconstructed and have been properly discharged into the nearby streams. The failed asphaltic section had been scarified. Stone-base spread, wetted and compacted with asphalt overlay as shown in the attached Plates.

The phase 2 activities which do not require stone-base activity, are already ongoing with the milling of the existing asphalt surface, application of tack-coat and resealing with asphalt.”

Mr. Olayinka Olufemi further explained efforts to completely eliminate pedestrian-vehicular conflict experienced daily are ongoing to construct pedestrian flyover, at Sagamu express junction along Sagamu/Benin expressway, around Total Sagamu and NPF Area Command.

In an interaction session with the commissioner on phone chat with our correspondent, he was made to understand that; our concern is that quality must not be compromised

And the response from him was that: I agree  with you, quality is the key and my staff are monitoring the project.