The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) on Wednesday staged a protest to stress the need for concerted and proactive efforts to review the decaying state of public infrastructure and the war against corruption.

The  procession started from Sango old toll gate axis, down to Meiran community, command community and Ayobo;  monitoring some Federal and Lagos state budgetary deficits typified by notable infrastructure decay in Lagos State with a view to calling the attention of responsible authorities to it.

In an exclusive interview with the Executive chairman of (CACOL), Mr Debo Adeniran, He said, “In the past few years, Nigerians have been groaning under the weight of infrastructural decay all over the country which is evidenced in many of the federal and state roads and hospitals.”

“For so long there have been several types of accident and road crashes involving trucks , cars  and all articulated and non articulated vehicles on the Sango old toll gate road, more than twenty six lives have been lost to accident on this road alone this year and more than 141 people have been critically injured because the roads are not properly built, resulting into small cars being trashed into the river by big trucks”

“We believe that this loss of lives can be preventable, we believe that people should not die from preventable causes;  we believe that people should not pay taxes and rates to a cause that will take their lives. This is why we are calling the attention of  the Lagos and Ogun state governments to come and assess the reasons why these accidents are reported on this axis.”

Adeniran further stated that “roads at the Meiran and Command axis have been constructed half way while government schools are not equipped with learning facilities.”

He however urged the government at various levels to give adequate attention to all the afore mentioned and all other begging areas.
“We therefore appeal to them to urgently address and fix the issues of infrastructural deficiency, this we believe , would alleviate the hardship, pain and loss that majority of the people of Lagos , and Nigerians as a whole experience in various parts,” he said.

According to a resident of Meiran community, Mr Olakunle Adeyemi, he lamented “public schools in our area are not fenced, the school environment stinks due to the not fixing of toilet facilities; enough chairs are not provided in the school class rooms and the  environment is not conductive for learning.”