Investigations by our correspondent in Lagos and Abuja showed that no fund was appropriated for the road between 1999 and 2007 by the former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration.
The Lagos – Ibadan Expressway records thousands of vehicles per day, a figure that makes it one of the busiest and accident-prone roads in the country.
But in spite of the clamour for an upgrade and expansion of the road, successive governments had failed to do so.
According to documents detailing appropriation for federal highways across the six geo-political zones of the country, the Obasanjo administration did not budget money for the road during its eight year tenure, 1999-2007.
One of the documents showed that N16.3bn was allocated for capital expenditure in the Ministry of Works in the 2003 supplementary budget but no amount was spent on the Lagos – Ibadan Expressway.
Roads (projects) that benefited from the budget included the dualisation of the Abeokuta-Ota Expressway (which is yet to be completed), Yola-Mubi Road, primary roads in Yenagoa, Abuja-Keffi- Akwanga and Owerri-Onitsha roads.
In the 2004 appropriation of N44.6bn, the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway got a zero allocation as the Federal Government considered other roads projects of top priority.
The projects included the Iganmu bridges and approaches as well as the Oshodi-Gbagada Expressway in Lagos. Others were the Osogbo-Ilobu-Oko-Ogbomoso Road, Sokoto- Goronyo-Demulite Road, and Potiskum-Kukuri- Gudubo Road.
The situation was the same in the 2005 Appropriation as there was no provision for the road. Roads that got generous allocation were the Kebbi-Makera-Spur Road and Birnin Kebbi-Arungungu road.
Abayi-Obelere-Osisioma with spur at Umugaa/Umuojima, Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway, dualisation of Ilesa -Akure Road, Ido-Ekiti-Ipele -Iludun-Eda Omiyo in Kwara State also benefitted from the allocation.
Also in the 2006 appropriation, no allocation was made for the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Projects that got choice allocation included Abaji-Lokoja-Benin Road, Sagbama-Ekeremor-Agge Road and the design of Ado-Ekiti-Ilu Moa-Imesi-Ikare Road in Ekiti State.
This does not however stop the ever busy nigerians who would walk on coal if that were a prerequisite to get things done. What this conotes is that, all the eight lolusy years which oby spent and even came to ibadan while the ibadan political tyrrant was still alive was just a mere camouflage.
When certain questions were thrown to him on a BBC sponsored programme, he did not have the ballz to be straight as he had to end it in a row.
This trend should stop as Nigerians are sick and tired of lacadastic kiss ass leaders.
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