Mixed reactions greet termination of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway concession

AS the dust raised over the termination of the Lagos-Ibadan concession agreement which the Federal Government had with Bi-Courtney Highway Services are yet to settle, a cross-section of Lagos residents have expressed diverse views about the development.
While some people  observed that the move was long overdue and a step in the right direction, others insisted that the issues that led to the delay in the execution of the project by Bi-Courtney must not be swept under the carpet.
According to Ojo Omoniyi, who claimed to be a frequent user of the road, the move is long overdue and should be a lesson for the government not to give projects of such magnitude to a company that is “yet to cut its teeth many areas” in the future.
Sharing a similar view, another resident, who identified herself simply as Adetoun, noted that many lives had been lost on the road, simply because the right thing had not been done. “At last, the Federal Government has come to its senses, but it is a shame that we could allow the most important road in Nigeria to become a death trap. Why wait for so long to do the right thing? The concession should have been awarded to another company ages ago,” she opined.
However, in the opinion of another resident, Daniel Okechi, Bi-Courtney was caught in the deadly salvo of the nation’s politics, which he insisted could be “very brutal.”
“Only recently, the entire nation was treated to unsavoury news of how a certain state governor, whose state plays host to a substantive portion of the road stalled work on the road. We were all told how many efforts made by Bi-Courtney to fix the road were sabotaged by this same governor. Nobody seems to be talking about this anymore. They have played politics with the lives of Nigerians for so long, but it is high time this stopped,” he argued.
All efforts made by the Nigerian Tribune to know the next line of action for Bi-Courtney proved unsuccessful, as the spokesman of the company, Mr Dipo Kehinde could not be reached as of the time of writing this report. This was because his phone was switched off.