For the past two weeks, movement on the Oyo-Ogbomoso-llorin Federal Road has been at a standstill due to the collapse of the road.
The road links the South West with Northern Nigeria.
Long queues of petrol tankers and other heavy-duty vehicles are stuck on the road stretching over several kilometers.
The long presence of petrol-laden tankers in the intractable gridlock heightened fears of fire accidents.
Commuters including articulated vehicles have had to seek alternative roads to reach their destinations and in the process creating traffic problems along those routes and damaging the roads there also.
Meanwhile, the Soun of Ogbomosoland, Oba Ghandi Afolabi Olaoye and other relevant stakeholders have temporarily taken over the rehabilitation of the Ogbomoso end of the 70km road which has been under reconstruction by the Federal government since 2001.
The rehabilitation works which commenced on Friday at Katika area down to the Baptist Seminary, Ogbomoso is being handled by a foreign construction firm.
