Carter Bridge irredeemable — Umahi

The Federal Government has said that the concern of Carter Bridge successful Lagos State was captious and each stakeholders indispensable realise that the span is irredeemable.

Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, made this remarks successful Lagos yesterday, during a broad inspection of the span nether deck.

He said: “What we did contiguous is to spot whether we tin salvage the ramps, truthful that we chopped down the outgo of operation and the clip of construction.

“That decision, we could not take.

“We request consultants and Berger to enactment their observations, and we person instruments we usage to find whether the observations are close oregon wrong.

“If the observations are arsenic they person sent to us, then, it means that some the ramp and the main axial conception of the Carter Bridge volition person to go,” Umahi said.

He said that the erstwhile Carter Bridge was demolished by explosives and inactive wrong the water.

“Whatever we are doing, we person to see removal of that truthful arsenic not impact our navigational activities.”

Umahi besides said that the Federal Government wanted to find if it could inactive salvage somethings from Carter Bridge portion taking a antithetic alignment.

“The captious determination we person to instrumentality is: since it seems that each stakeholders are astatine bid that a caller Carter Bridge should beryllium constructed, is determination immoderate mode we tin salvage and repair thing to beryllium successful usage portion we instrumentality a antithetic alignment?”

Umahi, however, said that the authorities was not considering demolishing the existing Third Mainland Bridge and gathering a caller one.

“The ministry is not buying the thought of a caller Third Mainland Bridge, we volition bash everything imaginable to bash rehabilitation of the bridge,” helium said.

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