Outrage as Lagos leases coastal road to church, private developers | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

Residents of the estates in Lekki communities are protesting against alleged leasing of the coastal road, an alternative to the tolled Lekki-Epe Expressway, to private developers by the Lagos State government. They are infuriated that instead of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu fixing the road as promised while campaigning for election, he resorted to leasing it to private developers on temporary basis, which may later become permanent.

Saddened by the development, the protesters from over 100 estates on the Lekki corridors took to the streets recently after all efforts made to stop the government from leasing the road yielded no fruit. They carried placards with different inscriptions all saying they wanted a coastal road and not private developers or event centre.

Calling for stoppage of the allocation, LERSA argued that allocating such a place to a church would bring about mindboggling developments on the land within one year that the government may find difficult to destroy when the church is eventually asked to quit. The protesters told The Guardian that they were worried that another Apapa gridlock situation might happen on the axis if proactive measures were not taken to expand the road infrastructure, especially as Lekki is located along the coastal line of Lagos.

The people are agitated that as this happens, importers, who are currently using the plots of neighbouring countries, would switch to the Lekki Deep Sea Port, thereby creating another Apapa kind of traffic dilemma on the axis. A member of the House of Representatives, Adebayo Balogun , in a motion titled ‘Urgent Need to Construct the Lekki Coastal Road from Akodo Ise to Victoria Island, Lagos State’, urged the government to expedite action on the project.

“The expressway is falling apart and we are even paying tolls. Projects worth billions of naira are coming to Lekki – airport, refinery, seaport and many others. Sometimes, we spend four hours on the road before getting home. The alternative road is not good but a portion of it is manageable if you have a Sport Utility Vehicle .

“What we had there was well organised paving stones, making individuals known to the residents of the adjourning estates with proper security arrangements and safety measures. There has never been issue of security breach at the section of the coastal road allocated to CLAM church and event centre. “LERSA and the adjourning estates have indicated interest to maintain the stretch of the road where the estates are to ensure that no shanties or miscreants spring up there by setting up recreational facilities and green areas with minimal structure.

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