Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway Will Open Up South West Corridors For Economic Growth – Umahi

Minister of Works, Engr. Dave Umahi, has reiterated the national government’s committedness to opening up the southbound westbound corridors for monolithic economical growth, saying the ongoing Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway holds the magic wand.

Umahi highlighted ongoing enactment crossed aggregate sections, including those successful Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Akwa Ibom, and Cross River. Over 30 dredgers are utilized for the coastal terrain.

The curate made the assertion during inspection of the 2nd conception of the roadworthy astatine Kilometre 77, Ibeju Lekki, saying that the committedness of the contractor handling the roadworthy has gone beyond conscionable providing work to becoming a developmental spouse to the Nation.

‎Addressing societal media concerns, the curate clarified that determination is nary harm to completed works successful Section 1, attributing disposable conditions to ongoing soil filling and rain-induced consolidation.

‎The Minister assured that nary of the completed sections of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road were damaged, arsenic was wide reported and claimed by immoderate people. He affirmed that with the complaint astatine which the operation enactment is going, it volition beryllium completed up of the 36-month completion schedule.

He expressed assurance that if the contractor tin prolong moving astatine the extremity of completing 1 kilometre regular contempt the monolithic soil filling they grappled with successful the swampy areas of the archetypal and 2nd sections, it volition surely implicit the operation up of time.

On contrary opinions by immoderate members of the public, Umahi said, “The illusion by immoderate radical that immoderate of the completed portions of the Lagos-Calabar roadworthy are damaged is not true; what they neglect to recognize is that we person to transportation retired monolithic soil filling with chromatic basal connected immoderate swampy portions of the roadworthy successful the archetypal 2 sections and person to hold 40 days for it to steadfast up earlier laying factual to nexus up the remainder of the road.

“This is wherefore I person taken you done the way to spot that determination is nary harm to immoderate portion of the completed sections. Nigerians request to spot the grade of enactment being carried retired earlier we screen it with factual and pavement truthful they volition recognize what has happened,” helium said.

He stressed that immoderate places person implicit 20 feet of filling, portion immoderate person implicit 26 feet of filling, saying it is indispensable for the nationalist to cognize this and the grade of what they are doing to conception the road.

Also speaking, Controller of Works, Lagos State Engr. Olukorede Keisha said, “We astir got to the extremity of Section 2, Lagos extremity of the Coastal road, and we saw that the contractor is faring well, diligently moving connected the task with objective perfection.”