Magboro, Mowe; inroads and exit routes

I've always found myself contemplating a wide range of thoughts on various topics. As someone with a background in product marketing, I understand the importance of finding a niche and crafting a consistent message that resonates with the right audience. However, I've also come to realize that sometimes it's necessary to start sharing our thoughts, even if they're not perfect. With that in mind, I'd like to delve into a topic that has been on my mind lately and invite like-minded individuals and stakeholders to join the conversation.

Some days back, the unimaginable, like you saw in the picture or video happened….I walked knee deep in water just to get to work, while some took a canoe for #100 to the bridge and another #100 to get to high land after the elevated bridge.

I could hear people chatter and banter about who was responsible, some blamed the government, the greed of property investors and local Chiefs, the Big Church they claim diverted the water their way - creating a stream or flow of water where none was before, a few - the road construction workers. Everyone was focused the water encroachment which occurs during the raining seasons yearly.

This situation made me ponder on the role of property investors and real estate developers, the responsibility of the government as regulators of infrastructure and development. It struck me as odd that areas like Magboro and Opic with multiple estates and growing populations have one major exit route. This not only posed security risks and traffic congestion but also limited the potential for further development. Why should these suburbs rely solely on one main route connecting them to the rest of the region?

Magboro ought to connect in several ways across the various suburbs with multiple roads up to Sagamu and even Abeokuta depending on which side you consider. Yet, people must hit the express as the major and at times, the only connecting route to other regions around.

These suburbs ought to also have inroads and other transport systems straight into several parts of Lagos! Why must it be the long bridge?! Yet we have built so many bridges in places like Abeokuta and Ijebu-Ode, when we could build other connecting bridges from Kara into Lagos.

In my view, fixing some of the inroad challenges in these suburbs and how they connect to major places within Lagos and Ogun can foster the creation of newer communities that are green and urban.

It's essential to recognize that this issue goes beyond mere real estate and infrastructure. It requires us to think critically and envision a future that surpasses even the advancements of developed nations. The cost of implementing such visionary projects may not necessarily exceed our current practices, but it demands a greater investment of heart, thought, and grit - staying the course!

I hope the CDAs now collecting N3500 from every house can ensure a longer bridge is built, but what happens again when they have just one road while construction is on. As Nigerians, we demonstrate resilience in austere situations, almost the same quantum which drives successful low-cost innovative solutions!

We must strive as a people not to be creative only in dire times, rather it must be in our own DNA to be creative on a daily basis, cos it is essential to our development.