Oke Sefu Community Groans over Dilapidated Access Road, Urges Ogun Government's Urgent Intervention

Residents, motorists, and commercial transport operators in the Oke Sefu community of Ibafo, situated within Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, have raised an impassioned alarm over the worsening degradation of their primary arterial roadway. The thoroughfare, which links hundreds of residential households and micro-enterprises to the critical Lagos-Ibadan transport axis, has reportedly deteriorated into an unnavigable stretch characterised by yawning gullies, broken culverts, and treacherous dust bowls.

According to aggrieved community representatives, traversing the corridor has evolved into a persistent physical and financial ordeal. Commuters lament that the protracted neglect has subjected vehicle owners to recurrent mechanical breakdowns, while commercial motorcyclists and tricycle operators have instituted arbitrary fare hikes to compensate for vehicle wear and tear. During seasonal downpours, the roadway reportedly transmutes into a waterlogged trench, stranding school children, elderly citizens, and office workers seeking egress to neighbouring industrial and commercial zones.

"We have endured this harrowing commute for months without meaningful intervention from civil authorities. Our vehicles visit mechanics on a weekly basis, and pregnant women or ailing residents face genuine peril whenever emergencies arise. We are pleading for immediate drainage and grading works before the heavy rains resume,"

lamented a local youth leader and long-time resident during a community engagement.

Small business owners operating along the Oke Sefu corridor maintain that retail sales have declined sharply, as delivery trucks and patronising customers increasingly avoid the cratered route. The socio-economic inertia has stoked profound frustration among inhabitants, who argue that their proximity to the nation’s commercial nerve centre should attract robust metropolitan planning rather than administrative apathy.