Sanwo-Olu: I’m committed to Badagry Seaport project, inspects removal of 2nd Lekki Roundabout

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State says his administration is highly committed to the issue of seaport project in Badagry.
Sanwo-Olu made this known on Sunday at the Badagry Integrity Awards 2019 organised by Badagry Parrot Prints and Publication in Badagry.
The governor was represented by his Special Adviser on Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mr Solomon Bonu.
According to Sanwo-Olu, on the issue of seaport, Badagry has been identified for this project for the past four years.
“We are still talking to the Federal Government to perfect the deal because as at today, the heart of Lagos is congested and we need to decongest it.
“Badagry has the land and we are still praying to Federal Government to listen to us so that the project will start on time.
“We are willing to do everything humanly possible to let the project start,” he said.
In his keynote address, Mr Maumo Jinadu, Bursar, Lagos State Polytechnic and Chairman of the event, urged the Federal Government to resuscitate the Badagry Seaport project’s plan and make it a reality.
Jinadu said that the project would help the development plan of Badagry and Lagos.
According to him, the construction of the seaport in Badagry is key to the development of the town.
He said that the award was in recognition of his 27 years of work experience in Lagos Polytechnic, saying that the organiser did not request for any money.
According to him, it is a merit award and no monetary value is attached to it; it is not an award bought with money.
Mr Solomon Zosu, Publisher, Parrot Prints and Publication, the organiser of BIA 2019 Award, said the criterion used in selecting the awardees was performance.
“We do not reward people who won election but we went into the field and looked at the performance evaluation of people before giving them awards,” he said.
Zosu expressed his gratitude to the people who had been behind the success of the publications over 10 years ago.
Among the awardees were Mr Solomon Bonu, the Special Adviser on Tourism, Arts and Culture to Lagos State Governor; and Mr Mobolaji Ogunlende, the Founder of Real Acts of Kindness (RAK), an NGO in Badagry.
Other awardees were Alhaji Fatai Shokunbi, the President of Badagry Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (BACCIMA); and Mrs Ronke Ogabi, the Coordinator, Lagos State Neighbourhood Corps in Badagry.
They also included Mr Maumo Jinadu, Bursar, Lagos Polytechnic; and Mr Temitope Ajayi, a reporter with Radio Nigeria.
Sanwo-Olu also reassured Lagosians of his administration’s commitment to rid the state of traffic gridlock.
In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega Akosile, on Sunday, Sanwo-Olu gave the assurance while inspecting the removal of the 2nd Lekki Roundabout.
He said that the removal of 2nd Lekki Roundabout was part of the effort to ensure a free vehicular movements along the Lekki corridors.

According to him, the state government has embarked on the removal of some roundabouts identified as the major causes of traffic gridlock being experienced by motorists.
The governor urged the contractors handling the project to keep up with the current pace of work, so as to ensure its completion in record time.
In the same vein, Sanwo-Olu visited the Lekki Coastal Roads to ascertain the level of work done by men of the state’s Environmental Task Force, who had gone earlier to clean up the illegal structures built on the Right of Way (RoW).
He said that government would immediately start work in the area to avoid further encroachment and illegal occupation of the large expanse of land.
Four roundabouts, including Ikotun, 2nd Roundabout on the Lekki-Epe Expressway, Allen Avenue Roundabout and Maryland, will be removed to pave the way for road expansion and free flow of traffic.
The Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Fredrick Oladeinde, had, on December 27, told journalists that the decision to improve the junctions was a strategic repositioning of the roads to ease traffic congestion.
Oladeinde said that the government started off through discovery of 60 traffic gridlock junctions and areas across the state.
”Sufficiently, the junction improvement work that is being conducted on the four roundabouts includes the removal of roundabouts.
”It also includes separate streams of traffic through Traffic Signal Lights (TSL), synchronise all TSLs through intelligent traffic systems, which will recognise the densities of traffic streams and give priorities accordingly.
“We will also introduce stacking lanes for both left and right turns at these junctions which will also contribute to increasing the capacities of our roads at the junctions thereby reducing travel time,” he said.