prince Ojupon of Ajah, civil engineer by training, showed me a different site of a suitable area, previously owned by their family, later sold to the Limpka bottling company. Prior to site visit, I was told to bring slippers and wear my ‘canvas’.
After yesterday’s heavy rain it was a good idea for me to wear rubber boots.
Site’s Pros: prominent location directly on Lagos Lagoon and near Addo road around 1 km away from the Lekki Express road. Uniquely for Lekki, Ajah has very diverse context with an existing old settlement, new residential areas, (currently under construction), busy trade along its major road, and the previewed future changes such as the ambitious fourth mainland bridge. People of a range of incomes, from poor to upper middle class are observed to be living, working and building houses around the site.
Site’s cons: the stretch of Addo road to Lekki express is not long but normally clogged up with traffic during the peak times. The usual food traders, beggars, keke tricycles and motorbikes maneuver around the slow moving cars, danfos and trucks with reclaimed sand .
Below: walk to the site through the village from the Baale palace
Above: level of the proposed road indicated by the prematurely installed gate.Below: green area surrounded by a dwarf wall is the site.
Prince was fine in the slippers, whereas I have gone for the rubber boots.
Below: Addo road between the visited site and the Lekki Epe Express.
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