Edo/Delta: When concession turns highway into hell

By Ozioruva AliuWHEN the concession of the about 125-kilometre Benin-Asaba Highway was initiated in 2023 and then officially launched in March 2025, road users, commuters and residents along the road corridors felt, for the first time, a road would be constructed in the South-South without the hitches of shoddy job, non-release of funds to contractors and other bureaucratic bottlenecks.Read Also: Highways of horror: Motorists wail, spend 4 days on Benin-Asaba roadThe road, w