Reacting, Special Adviser to the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, Hakeem Bello, said the road did not collapse due to lack of diligence on the part of the road contractor.
  
Bello insisted that saboteurs who stole major reinforcement element and built shanties in the area caused the incident.
 
He said that it is wrong for anyone to think that the portion failed because it was not properly constructed. “Nigerians should blame saboteurs who stole the major reinforcement element,” he said.
  
He said the Minister had on several occasions asked illegal squatters occupying under-bridges in Lagos to quit as fire incidents and other illegal activities underneath such bridges often result in extensive damage to the vital infrastructure constructed with the nation’s scarce resources

MEANWHILE, Lagos State’s Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Fredric Oladeinde, said the bridge has been shut down for repairs.
  
Oladeinde, who did not give a specific period the repairs and diversion would last, stressed that the diversion became necessary pending repairs to be carried out by the Federal Government, in collaboration with the state government.
  
The commissioner listed the following routes already mapped out to minimise inconvenience, to include: Motorists from Eko Bridge to utilise Iganmu/Sifax to access Ijora Oloye or Apapa.
 
Motorists from Iddo heading to Ijora-Oloye/Apapa will be diverted at the intersection underpass on a contra flow to reconnect at the U-Turn inwards Ijora-Oloye or Apapa.