Lagos State Government has mobilised contractors with five point six billion naira to begin construction of one hundred and eighty-one roads.

According to government, the sum represented thirty per cent of the total cost of the projects, saying the one hundred and eighty-one road projects would be delivered in two phases.

Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Ade Akinsanya, made this known at the Ministerial Press Briefing to mark three years in office of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, saying the first set of fifty-seven contractors, chosen after a rigorous process to carry out the first phase of the project, would construct ninety roads.

Akinsanya said the construction of the ninety roads would commence in July, and the contractors had been directed to deliver in six months, saying the second phase of the project would commence immediately after the first phase.

”For the second phase, we are still evaluating and trying to select the roads; we are doing the selection in conjunction with local government chairmen and community development committees,” he said.

Akinsanya said the road construction was in fulfillment of Ambode’s promise to open up more inner roads across the state, saying government successfully delivered 114 roads in September 2016.

The official said government was committed to ensuring even distribution of infrastructure in the state.