IEDPU urges FG to fix Ilorin-Jebba road
The Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU) has urged the Nigerian Government to ensure the urgent repairs of the damaged segments of the new Ilorin-Jebba Road.
According to the Union, the road is forcing articulated lorries to pass through the traditional parts of Ilorin.
This appeal was made by its National President, Alhaji Aliyu Otta Uthman, fsi, while speaking at an event in Ilorin over the weekend.
Alhaji Uthman hinted that for the past few weeks, the people of Ilorin living at Ogidi, Oloje, Pakata, Adeta and Alfa Yahaya have contended with the increased volume of traffic in their vicinities with confusion and threat to life and property partly as a result of the drivers concerned who lack the knowledge of the city roads.
The IEDPU President added that the articulated lorries are also a threat to the intercity roads which are getting continuously damaged by their exposure to such lorries with huge loads.
Alhaji Uthman, therefore, appealed to the Honourable Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, to ensure that immediate actions are taken to save the people of the affected parts of Ilorin from accidents, congestion, and further destruction of the roads.
