The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has blamed the recent traffic on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway on the attitude of some drivers and the weather condition.
According to him, this incidents have been slowing down the progress of work on the remaining six-kilometre to be completed.
Fashola spoke while addressing newsmen at the end of the Federal executive council meeting in Abuja.
He added that:
“I also heard that some aggrieved students, under the aegis of NANS, are also going on to the road in order to protest.
“My respectful view is that that is not helpful at all to the citizens.
” The right to protest is a very well protected right in our Constitution, but it does not include the right to inflict pain and inconvenience on other people.
“So, whilst their protests can go on, they should refrain from blocking the road in order to do their protest, that in itself is a violation of law, if they are well advised.”
