In a bid to fulfill one of his campaign promises of investing massively in the construction of rural roads, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, on Monday unveiled plans to commence the reconstruction of 114 roads across the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas in the State.

Ambode who disclosed that two roads will be constructed in each of the 20 LGAs and 37 LCDAs, however, charged the Councils’ Executive Secretaries to judiciously ensure that the projects meet international standard.
INSPECTION: Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State (middle) with the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Tunji Bello (2nd right) and member, Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Bisi Yusuf (left) during the Governor’s inspection of Ayetoro road, Ipaja-Ayobo, yesterday.

Speaking at the Lagos House, Ikeja during the monthly meeting with the Executive Secretaries of the 57 Councils to review the progress report in their various communities as well as their challenges, Governor Ambode said the decision to embark on the road rehabilitation was in line with the reforms at the local government level, noting that the first phase will commence with the reconstruction of 114 roads, two per local government, at the cost of N19 billion.

The Governor, who said the execution of the project will be left in the care of the local governments, however tasked the Executive Secretaries to ensure that only the best contractors are engaged to ensure that the prescribed standard is met on all the roads.

“We expect you to create jobs in your communities and get our people employed on these projects,” he said.

Governor Ambode said that the ongoing reforms in the councils are geared towards making them more effective and deliver better service to their communities, saying that the new structure which has become operational will go a long way to reduce cost of governance.

“With this new structure, a lot is expected from you, the Executive Secretaries. You are the face of the government in your communities. Your people must know you and you must know the people”.

“You must have a good knowledge of their challenges and be able to, jointly with them, proffer solutions that the government can implement. You should live with your people. There is no reason why an Executive Secretary of a Local Government should live outside his community”, he said.

He reminded the Executive Secretaries that the performance of the administration will be judged by their performance, urging them to improve on sanitation, primary healthcare delivery, primary education, local government roads and community security in their Councils.

He also charged them to utilise the various channels of communication to improve the level of participation between the Community Development Committees (CDCs) Community Development Associations (CDAs), Local Councils, Local Governments and the State Government.

“This chain of communication must be fluid and information should flow either way. You have created websites; we have erected boundary demarcation sign posts and created phone lines for easier access to the Local Governments and Councils. We expect all these to ensure better communication with your communities and for the people to know which Local Governments they reside in,” he said.

The Governor also reiterated his promise to run an inclusive government and return governance to the communities, saying it was the surest way to give the people a stake in governance.

“This is a government of continuity with improvement. As such our people must feel that improvement. They must experience that improvement. They can only feel it if you are dedicated to serve them. As we work on ways to improve the lives of our people, I charge you all to get involved in your communities. You must live with your community and you should be accessible to them”.

“Community Governance should be our priority as we have promised. We can only consider our administration a success if we can touch the lives of all our citizens positively in any community they reside. That is the challenge facing you and I,” he said.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/lagos-to-spend-n19bn-on-114-roads/

Road money

impressive cost reductions.. how many kilometers in total.. .the Lagos of BRF paid N2b per kilometer.. this Bostonian dufus is definitely a genius 19billion is good money spent on roads

Ambode, if my road is not part of the proposed roads to be constructed, just forget my vote on your second term bid.

19billions on 114 roads, my question is how many kilometers will they cover on each road

Cool

Pipe it up

Ambode, may God bless you. The other day you announced how you have been saving 3 billion monthly. Unlike someone whom once governed Lagos,whose name is before the Senate waiting for confirmation as minister,he spent 1-3 billion per km.Pls help me tell my fellow Lagosians how much your own website cost,the same man did his own website for 78 million naira.

I am a skeptic and history in this country is what has made me so

See their mouths like "International Standard", mtcheeew I just wish I can slap someborri now man, spits, mtcheew mtcheew

Please do tell, how many roads of so called "International Standard" have we even seen built in Lagos State Maybe the Lekki-Epe Expressway and the Link Bridge, that's all I can think off at the moment and even those do somewhat fall short of "International Standard", but are acceptable.

Do we even have driving standards in this Country, with citizens being aware of road markings, speed limitations and what not

Do we even have consistent road markings

Not that you are on this road with lane markings and immediately you veer off, then all the remaining roads on your route are totally bereft of any sort of markings what so ever

Will these roads have closed or open gutters Not that you will start begging citizens not to throw stuff inside the gutters, I laugh cant even laugh, mtcheew

Please tell me any country in the history of the world were citizens don't disobey sanitary laws by throwing trash on the floor. The only difference is that the forward thinking governments of these countries buried their drainage systems so that the most harm littering will do to their streets will be temporary untidiness which can be cleaned up easy peazy. Here in this freaking country however, the government would construct open gutters then now start begging citizens to not throw stuff on the ground as if they can remote control all the citizens, mtcheew. what kind of genjutsu is that infinite tyukuyomi perhaps, mtcheew

Will these streets have sidewalks Or will pedestrians in Nigeria continue on in the never ending battle for supremacy with cars on the road
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Abeg, seeing is believing. I want to believe these roads will be of "International Standard", but history has always doused my hopes

How I wish they can prove me wrong

They should announced the name of the roads

NoMoreTrolling:
Please tell me any country in the history of the world were citizens don't disobey sanitary laws by throwing trash on the floor. The only difference is that the forward thinking governments of these countries buried their drainage systems so that the most harm littering will do to their streets will be temporary untidiness which can be cleaned up easy peazy.


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This just shows that you're a very filthy person.

ISpiksDaTroof:
This just shows that you're a very filthy person.