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| Rasheed Akotun Street |
By: Aisha Abd-Lateef
As the rehabilitation work of one of the major roads in the
community progress from Igi Olugbin Street to Abule Okuta Road, another busy
community road Rasheed Akotun Street a major pedestrian route two streets away
is on the receiving end of the construction workers oversight as the street has
been flooded with water from a multiple busted pipe at the construction site. Commune Magazine, CM gathered that the
engineering company while digging the road broke an underground water pipe in
two different places thus flooding the work site and the water channel into the
drainage system. Although, all adjoining streets water
drainage were able to contain
and carry the water volume. However, further down the drainage carriage way on
Rasheed Akotun street, whose drainage system were in serious disrepair could
not contain the volume of water coming into it because they have low barriers
and in some places small mound of soil, thus the water overflow the embankment.
However, CM learnt that effort s were been made to contain the water flow by reinforcing
the barriers with bagged sand. |
| Shops that lost their frontage |
Since the road and drainage rehabilitation moved to Igbo
Igunnu roundabout about two month ago, people living in the Abule Okuta area
down to Ladi-Lac close to Abule Primary school in Alubarika Street have been suffering
from shortage of pipe borne water due to damaged underground water pipe at Igbo
Igunnu roundabout and now in Abule-Okuta Road. In a related the development, the
reconstruction of drainage on Deji Aladejobi Street off Abule Okuta has
resulted in many shops on the street losing their frontage. House No. 3 beside
Celina hotel and an adjoining house on the same street may face the same predicament of having their frontage demolished. An unconfirmed report says that the frontage of the one
storey building is marked for demolition because the developers failed to observe
the required setbacks by law. According to CM findings, the state standard
requirement setback for residential area for local or street road is six metres
(6.56 yards) from the edges of the road and this was not adhere to by the
developer. We will keep you posted on further development.
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| House No 3 and another that might be demolish |