Following the incessant accidents on the Kemta-Somorin road, residents of the Ajebo Road Housing Estate, Kemta, in Abeokuta, on Tuesday, called on the state government to intervene in ensuring the safety of its roads for pedestrians.

The call followed the loss of one Oladipo Ademuyiwa, a professor in the Biochemistry department at FUNAAB, who fell victim to a reckless hit-and-run driver on Prof Wole Soyinka Road within the Kemta-Somorin road on Sunday.

DAILY POST reports that members of the Nigeria Automobile Technicians Association in Ogun State had also protested the death of three of their colleagues by a truck driver in the Kemta area.

The technicians blocked the recently constructed Ajebo/OGTV motorway and promised never to permit truck drivers to use it again until there is a tangible remedy for the ongoing loss of lives on the road.

However, the chairman of the Ajebo Road Housing Estate, Ayo Ajasa, stated that despite repeated appeals to the government and relevant agencies, no concrete action has been taken to install speed breakers and other necessary safety measures on the road.

Ajasa asserted that the incessant and avoidable accidents could be prevented if the state government intervened.
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