Pen Cinema flyover to be ready in 10 months – Governor Ambode assures
Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has assured residents around the Agege area of the state that the ongoing construction of the Pen Cinema Flyover, will be completed in ten months.
While inspecting the construction site, the governor made it known that the 1.4km Flyover which will run from Agege down to the Abeokuta Expressway will be a key intervention strategy by his administration to address the perennial traffic, often associated with the area.
Ambode said, “I’ve always wanted to do something in this community. I want to reduce the sufferings that arise from the traffic congestion in this neighbourhood. So, I have decided to do the Pen Cinema Flyover starting from the beginning of this road by Total and then run straight for one kilometre down and then an additional 400metres, totaling 1.4km to decongest this neighbourhood up to the Abeokuta Expressway.”
He, however, stated that the project might bring some inconveniences and assured that the end result will change the face of Agege forever.
“You can see that I have inconvenienced you by the demolition that has taken place here. It is temporal. In the next 10 months by the grace of God, we will deliver this project by November 2018”, he said.
Ambode, while appealing to residents and community leaders to cooperate with the contractor ahead of the planned closure of some parts of the road from Thursday, January 4, assured that residents whose properties were demolished to give way for the project would be adequately compensated.
“We are bringing prosperity to your doorstep and I have come to appeal to everybody, community leaders, all our school children that you should not worry, it has come with a little pain, but by the time we come back at the end of the year, Agege will look like Victoria Island and Ajah. Everywhere we go, we know there is economic prosperity around that neighbourhood. So, my coming here is to plead with you to bear with us and cooperate with us”, he added.
