 Residents of Lagos Island want contractors handling the ongoing repairs on the damaged Akmon Bridge to speed up work so that the road can be opened to traffic. A cross-bonding lobby Koko Yadokmung visited the site and brought back an update. Repair works on the damaged Akmon River Bridge began about nine months ago after fire, gutted heat and the surrounding market. At the height of construction work, vehicular movement was halted, resulting in heavy and cluster traffic snow in Anurand, Akmonbo. Everyone who does business here got a fair share of the pains and frustrations which still persist. They block all the roads, we don't see any market sign, they make us all of our shifts coming, so we bless God with this. We are already supposed to finish this work, for now, no more to enter, no way of passing will take enter, to come and buy market, now our market, now everything is going down. They will start at around 9, go around 3 o'clock and they are not doing anything in particular, nothing they have been done in this bridge, I thought they see us, I had to go and lock the other, the remaining entrance to join the bridge, why? Almost a year and about one month now, people are suffering a lot. Array of hope seems to be in sight as one side of the bridge is now completed and opened, but not to vehicular movement. Since yesterday they opened the bridge, people down there follow here every day, this morning people follow here. We don't say before 29, they open it, before our bag will enter there, this is our turn. What I just want to encourage legal state government, let them, people have started to pass the road, let them make the vehicle to be passing the road as well. Virginia L. Azuz is a site engineer. Presently now we are asphalting and after asphalting we are doing the expansion joints, we removed the existing worn out ones and we are replacing them with the new ones and that will be the final step of work on top of the bridge. Under the bridge we are still in progress, you yourself came to here before, you checked what was happening down. So now you can go down and check the improvement of the work. Obviously, the rehabilitation of the bridge may not be completed before the next transition in May 29. Traders here believe the government is a continuum and have asked that work continues till it is completed. Love Ikuku Uiedoku, Plus TV News.