Ex-lawmaker, Arase, motorists groan as gridlock worsens on Ifaki-Oye-Ilupeju highway 

Former lawmaker, Senator Ayo Arise has lamented the worsening gridlock connected the Ifaki-Oye-Ilupeju axis of Ekiti State, calling connected the Nigerian Government to urgently intervene to reconstruct question on the national road.

Arise made the telephone aft visiting the affected area, wherever hundreds of articulated vehicles, including trailers and substance tankers, person been stranded for astir 48 hours pursuing the illness of a conception of the roadworthy astatine Ilupeju-Ekiti.

The improvement has brought postulation on the engaged way to a adjacent standstill, leaving motortruck drivers and different motorists stranded.

The concern has besides raised information concerns among residents, peculiarly arsenic respective of the stranded tankers are conveying petroleum products, heightening fearfulness of a imaginable occurrence outbreak oregon an accident.

Arise, who described the concern arsenic alarming, urged the Federal Government, peculiarly the Ministry of Works, to instrumentality contiguous steps to repa...