NANS, NAOSS give Buhari 14 days ultimatum to fix Abeokuta-Sango road

President Muhammadu Buhari has been given 14-day ultimatum to renovate the expressway connecting Abeokuta with Sango-Ota and Lagos State.

This came as students under the umbrellas of
the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and the National Association of Ogun State Students (NAOSS), gave the government of President Muhammadu Buhari a 14-day ultimatum to reconstruct the highway connecting Abeokuta with Sango-Ota and Lagos State.

The students, while expressing sadness over the pitiable condition of the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway, said “the road has now become a death trap and the hotspot of kidnappers and armed robbers.”

The students’ associations have shown concerns over the security of drivers and other users of the road, especially students of the various tertiary institutions of learning situated along the road and in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State.

They said they have issued the Federal Government a 14-day ultimatum to begin rehabilitation of the road, failure which would lead to a total shut down of the road in a protest.

Damilola Simeon, the Chairman of NANS in Ogun State, and Oluwagbemileke Ogunrombi, the National President of NAOSS, made this revelation through a jointly signed statement released on Sunday.

The statement revealed that “no fewer than ten lives have been lost lately in various road accidents that occurred as a result of the deplorable condition of the road.”

The students associations recalled that two students of the D.S. Adegbenro ICT Polytechnic were recently abducted by unknown gunmen on the road.

They expressed dissatisfaction over the manner armed robbers and abductors have been taking advantage of the deplorable state of the road to instill fear and rancour in innocent members of the public.

The associations cried out that the lives and property of drivers, other users of the road and those living around the area are no longer safe as a result of continued armed robbery and abduction being carried out by unidentified gunmen along the road.

“We are saddened by the insensitivity and wickedness of the Federal Government to subject residents of the State to untold hardships by not fixing the deplorable Lagos-Sango-Abeokuta road.

“For years, our people, especially thousands of students who ply the road on a daily basis have been going through hell.

“The road has become a death trap for motorists and passengers while their lives are also no longer safe in the hands of armed robbers and kidnappers.

”Not a week goes by without reports of accidents, armed robbery and kidnapping on the road.

“We are worried by these unpleasant occurrences and we want to call on the Federal Government to commence reconstruction of the road within the next 14 days, failure which the government will incur the wrath of the Nigerian students.

“We can no longer stand by and fold our arms while people continue to die on the road. The government at the top has failed our people woefully.

“The blood of those who have lost their lives on that road is on the hands of the Federal government,” the statement partly read.