Gridlock at Ilasa section of the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway,Lagos… yesterday PHOTO: AYODELE ADENIRAN
Speaking with anguish on his face, he said, “look at the time, it is now almost 8:00am, Friday morning. I left MM2 at few minutes to 11.00pm thinking I would get there and come back before midnight. The first inkling I got that something was terribly wrong was that I noticed that commercial buses, danfo were driving against the traffic, but I pegged it down to their usual impatience.
For Mercy James, a customer service staff with one of the airlines, Thursday night would not be forgotten in a hurry. “When I got to NAHCO junction, commercial buses were charging N500 to get to Mile 2 and I was surprised because normally, it is N200. I was short of cash, so my colleague and I had to sit on each other’s laps.
“The government has completely failed us in this country. How can they be looking at us suffering like this everyday without looking for a solution? It doesn’t give us joy to inflate transport fare but we need to make our money because traffic or not, “delivery money” and owo ajo must be complete. The trailers have made this work very difficult and cumbersome and I am looking for another route to ply pending when the trailers are removed from the road.
At Oshodi, bus conductors could be heard telling passengers, this one dey follow one-way, justifying the increased fare. From Oshodi to Ballet/Cele, the traffic is almost bearable but from after Cele, impunity reigns. The tankers and trailers are parked from there right up till Mile 2 and the only means of moving around is with Okada.
Keep quite before E F cc, come for u.
Bad government. South west tell the government to spread port to other part of the country equity and justice b4 what is happening to the north now come to south west. Look at d zamfara/ northern saga. When injustice is too long it will bumarang
Mile 2 to Abule Osun (under bridge) nah die. Till the extent that motor bikes sef struggle to pass.