NIGERIA (Lagos)- As part of efforts to ensure better roads within Lagos State,Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola has inaugurated the reconstructed Kodesho Road and Simbiat Abiola Way in Ikeja.

The governor, during the inauguration, warned traders, especially auto dealers to stop making sections of the highway their showroom so as to avoid traffic gridlocks that have characterised most roads in Lagos.

 “As we hand over these roads, I think we need to talk to ourselves. We build roads to let us get to our businesses; our places of work quickly and to make movement easier.

“But some residents covert the roads to places they trade and as long as we continue to trade on them, we defeat the purpose for which they were built.

“As long as we turn our roads to shopping malls where everybody buys in traffic, we all pay the price because you all know that such causes stress and hypertension.

“Now, I see those who sell cars on Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way and other areas have turned sections of the highways into showrooms.

“I am using this opportunity to tell them to get land where they can display and sell their cars. If we want to be great people, we don’t turn our highways into car shops,” he added.

Mr. Fashola reminded the traders that Lagos was fast becoming a megacity and urged them to sell their goods in the market, shopping malls and not on the highways.

Fashola also revealed that work is ongoing on over 200 inner-city roads across the state, adding that the delivery of the two strategic roads was the fulfillment of his electoral promise to improve infrastructure in all parts of the state.