Ambode: Gives a new promise on 4th Mainland Bridge

By Kazeem Ugbodaga  

Like a shot from the blues, Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode announced today that his government will  sign a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, with investors for the construction of the proposed 4^th Mainland Bridge before the end of May.

The promise came when Lagosians already assumed that the bridge had become one of the broken promises by successive governments in Lagos since 1999.

The 4^th Mainland Bridge has been in the pipeline for the past 17 years but nothing significant has been achieved. The construction of the bridge is expected to cost over N240 billion.  The proposed  bridge  would take off from Ajah through Langbasa to Ikorodu.

At the Third Quarterly Town Hall meeting held in Ikorodu today, the governor said once the MOU is signed next month, work would begin on the Bridge which would boost the economy of Lagos East Senatorial District.

 “Many investors have shown interest in the actualisation of our dream for the 4th Mainland Bridge which will run from Ajah to Ikorodu to Isawo and berth at Ojodu, Ikeja back to the Ibadan expressway,” he said.

Also, the governor said his administration had recorded success in its Light Up Lagos Project as 68 rural communities were recently connected to the national grid while massive street and road lightings were ongoing across Lagos State, saying that places like Ile-Zik down to Tollgate on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway had been lit up.

 Ambode revealed that the Light Blue Rail project was now about 85 percent completed.

He  said the state had also paid N561 million as West African Examination Council, WAEC, fees of 46,000 public school students in the state for this year’s Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination.

The governor had also ordered the taskforce to serve evacuation notice all occupants of shanties at Ajelogo-Akanimodo axis, after which demolition of all shanties in the area should commence in earnest as such places harboured criminals.