Gov Ibikunle Amosun’s N260m Air-conditioned Pedestrian Bridge Now More Locked Than Open To Users

Fresh information coming the way of societynowng.com revealed that the first of its kind big money concept is more locked than open to users – that is talking about the air- conditioned pedestrian bridge constructed by Governor Ibikunle Amosun in the early days of his first term in office.

Findings by societynowng.com revealed that the project which gulped the bandied sum of N260million and located along Sokori/ Totoro road is mostly under lock nowadays.

‘’i don’t think it is still open…it is mostly locked but let me find out ’’ a resident source in Abeokuta had initially stated to inquiries by societynowng.com

Further digs by the source and others had turned up revelations that the big project expected to ‘’ease’’ traffic in its area of location is now more locked than open.

‘’it is still in use, but irregularly made available to users’’ a source specifically stated.

Additional digs revealed security concerns of attacks on unsuspecting users by hoodlums taking advantage of the screened off facade of the bride scared some potential users away – and resulted in the minders adoption of the policy of locking the entrances to cut off ‘’preys’’ and vandals, as well as protect the facility.

‘’The thing is, the issue of safety seems to have override the reason for spending so much public fund to set up the project in the first place..hence why it is more locked than open to users’’ another source analysed.

Background checks revealed Governor Amosun claimed to have sighted a similar construction on a visit to nest of toursim Dubai and decided to replicate it in his state.

The move had attracted widespread condemnation from far and near, especially from political opponents who labelled it ‘’misplace priority’’ and ‘’misuse of public fund’’.

About three years down the line of the furore the N260million project attracted, it appears the usefulness of the project lays in the ‘’beauty’’ of its construction than ‘’usage’’ by those it is meant for.