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| Dr. Goodluck Jonathan |
Dr.
Babalakin made this know while speaking in Gbongan, Osun State at the opening
of the 2018 policy meeting on admissions by the Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board. He explained that the termination of the contract by the
Jonathan administration was responsible for the stoppage of work and the slow
pace of work now that the Federal Government had taken over the construction of
the road.
Dr.
Babalakin, who has a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge, said the best
way to develop infrastructure in the country was for the government to support
those who had the vision to create various projects. According to him, this will
help in addressing the infrastructural deficit in the country.
By
doing this, the legal luminary said that the government would have also
addressed the problem of abandoned projects which he described as a big issue
now.
Babalakin
said, “We must also state very clearly that the best
way to develop infrastructure in Nigeria is to support and enhance those who
have the vision and imagination to create projects and see them to completion.
This is a far cheaper and reliable way to achieve results rather than spending
scarce government resources on projects that never appear to come to an end.
“If the ill-advised move that led the President Jonathan government
to interfere with the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway project had not happened, the
road would have been completed in or before 2014. It would have been an
eight-lane highway with seven overhead bridges and other facilities at a cost
not exceeding N112bn.
“Today, we are faced with an unending project with indeterminable
costs and maximum inconvenience to road users. We must collectively put an end
to this way of doing business.”
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