Mowe, Ofada, Papa residents make brisk business on blocked Lagos-Ibadan expressway

As motorists and travellers who plied the ever busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway were busy casting aspersions on the Federal Government for allowing the road to suffer acute neglect which has made it unmotorable, residents of Mowe, Ofada and Papa c ommunities in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State are making quick money following the total blockage of the expressway which forced travellers to look for alternative routesMost motorists, Community News learnt, in their attempts to avoid being caught in the traffic logjam,diverted their vehicles to Mowe , Ofada and Papa areas and as expected, youths in those areas quickly erected emergency toll gates and were collecting money from motorists before allowing them to pass through the areas.Community News gathered that at a village around Mowe, youths were collecting N50 from motorists at one of the emergency toll gatesSome of the youths, who were collecting the toll, stated that they decided to collect money because they would require fund to fix the roads.'We are not callous, but we need money to fix the roads. This area has been witnessing heavy traffic since the incident on the expressway and we shall need money to do some repairs on this road. We built this road through communal efforts; no government input. The money we are collecting is for maintenance.'Meanwhile, it was lamentation galore among residents of Mowe and Ofada communities, as people were complaining about poor state of roads in the area. Some of the rsidents who spoke to Community News, lamented that the two communities had suffered acute neglect from successive governments in the state.The towns (Mowe and Ofada) are currently witnessing rapid development as people now move to the areas due to acute accommodationproblem in Lagos.
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