Lagos-Calabar Highway: Umahi Calls For Investigation Of Winhomes’ Claims

The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has urged media and civilian nine groups to unfastened a full-scale investigative study connected alleged onshore scams and N250 cardinal diaspora remittances sunk into existent property investments by Winhomes properties, who alleged that the national authorities demolished her multi-million dollar concern on the Lagos-Calabar coastal road corridors to pave mode for the gazetted alignment of the coastal road project.

Umahi stated that President Bola Tinubu supports overriding nationalist involvement successful onshore acquisition cases for infrastructure projects. This is applicable to the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project, which has faced absorption from developers, existent property developers, and immoderate spot owners on the projected route.

According to Umahi, the presidency believes that nationalist improvement precedes idiosyncratic onshore ownership successful specified situations.

He revealed that Winhomes Global Properties has been holding media rounds and engagements successful assorted fora successful the diaspora to de-market the efforts of the Ministry of Works connected the Lagos-Calabar coastal road task to overseas audiences, wherever she declared that her diaspora concern totalling implicit $250 cardinal was demolished by the Nigerian government.

Umahi warned diaspora investors to halt engaging successful bullying tactics, innuendoes, conjectures and sensational reporting of the Lagos-Calabar coastal road task portion stating that the Ministry is unfastened for inspection, scrutiny and transparent policy.

Umahi made this known yesterday portion inspecting Winhomes’ spot connected Chainage 18 of the coastal highway. He stated that the spot was conscionable bare land, lodging nary structures and buildings, portion refuting the claims that the Nigerian authorities had demolished a $250 multi-million diaspora investment.

Speaking to Journalists connected the Winhomes site, Umahi said,’’ As you tin see, there’s thing similar $250 cardinal diasporan investments here. It is conscionable a cyber-bullying effort to nonstop propaganda to the ministry and de-market the minister’s efforts successful bolstering roadworthy infrastructure projects successful the country.’’

The minister’s inspection circuit followed accusations by Mrs Stella Okengwu, Chairman of Winhomes Global Services, who alleged onshore scams, unpaid compensations, and the demolition of her $250 cardinal investments on the coastline corridors.

She had earlier claimed that officials of the Ministry of Works demanded bribes to forestall the demolition of her property, and that the archetypal gazetted alignment of the coastal road was compromised aft immoderate developers allegedly bribed for approvals to set the route.