Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has called on the Federal Government to fix the road linking Ekiti and Ondo States.
According to the former governor, “the road is now in such a deplorable state that motorists now avoid it.”
Fayose said the road had become a source of severe hardship for Nigerians, especially the people of Ekiti state who were the major users. He called on the Minister of Works, Mr Babatunde Fashola, to give the road the required attention, noting that
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“in the last one year, the road has become so bad that only people who are unmindful of its deplorable state use it.”
“Infomation has it that innocent people who unknowingly ply the road are daily at the mercy of criminals. “Apart from attacks by criminals, the road is also a death trap for travellers as several lives have been lost in ghastly motor accidents. “The Federal Government should therefore see to the fixing of the road so as to alleviate the suffering of commuters and restore the dead commercial activities in towns and villages along the road,”
he said.“Infomation has it that innocent people who unknowingly ply the road are daily at the mercy of criminals. “Apart from attacks by criminals, the road is also a death trap for travellers as several lives have been lost in ghastly motor accidents. “The Federal Government should therefore see to the fixing of the road so as to alleviate the suffering of commuters and restore the dead commercial activities in towns and villages along the road,”
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