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Socialist Democracy March - April 2005
MULERO CANAL BRIDGE: Lagos Government Turns Blind Eye To The Death TrapBy: Toyin Raheem
More than four months after the National Conscience Party, Agege Chapter has written a letter to the Lagos State Commissioner of Works and Infrastructure, calling government's attention to the life-threatening dilapidated bridge over the Mulero canal along Ipaja Road Agege and the dire need to reconstruct it urgently, nothing is yet to happen.
In a letter dated October 21 2004, the party painted the picture of how erosion has eaten down the ground and how the bridge vibrates under vehicular pressure.
Having been imposed to administer an illegal local government like others in Lagos state without mandate from the people, it is no surprise that the so-called chairman of "Orile-Agege Local Government" who sees the bridge and the serious danger it poses could not call on his benefactors at Alausa to see to the immediate reconstruction of the bridge as demanded by the NCP and the daily users.
Meanwhile, the drums and ropes used to guide the bridge as warning signal to motorists and children are now portending dangers as children lean on the drum to see how deep the canal is.
We of the NCP hereby reiterate our call on the government to wake up to its constitutional and social responsibilities and not wait for the bridge to start claiming lives before appreciating the need for its reconstruction.
Socialist Democracy March - April 2005
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