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Friday, October 10th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has jumped into the speech concerning the outgo of the arguable Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway task that was endorsed by President Bola Tinubu.
Makinde, who was speaking during an lawsuit successful a viral video connected Friday, stated that it makes nary consciousness for the Minister of Works, David Umahi, to beryllium “dancing astir the cost” of the project.
The politician was responding to the heated speech that happened unrecorded connected tv betwixt Umahi and Arise TV presenter Rufai Oseni connected Tuesday.
Oseni had asked the curate to analyse the outgo of the project, kilometre by kilometre and Umahi frowned astatine the question arsenic helium announced himself “professor” of signifier successful engineering arsenic helium spoke concerning the costs of the roadworthy successful kilometres, saying that they are not the aforesaid and would beryllium excessively hard for Oseni to understand.
He said: “These are simple questions. And it makes nary consciousness (sic). A process is ongoing, outgo has been made, and you are saying, ‘how has this wealth been utilised?. The wealth is meant for the project, and it volition beryllium paid according to the enactment done.
“When a certificate is generated, and it is approved done a process successful the Ministry of Works, it volition past beryllium fixed to the funders, who will, successful turn, cheque if the works were done. How tin you beryllium asking for the outgo per kilometre? The prices are different. The adjacent kilometre is antithetic from the adjacent kilometre.
“Keep quiescent and halt saying what you don’t know. I’m a prof successful this field. You don’t recognize anything. I recognize engineering precise well. You bash not cognize what you are asking. You bash not cognize what you’re asking.”
Reacting, Makinde said, “They asked a curate however overmuch the coastal roadworthy is, and past you (Umahi) are dancing astir and going to accidental that no, the adjacent kilometre is antithetic from the adjacent kilometres. Then what is the mean cost?
“When we did the Oyo to Iseyin roadworthy then, it was astir N9.99 billion, astir N10 billion. About 34 oregon 35 kilometres, the mean outgo is astir N238 cardinal per kilometre.
“But erstwhile we did Iseyin to Ogbomoso, that was 76 kilometres, it was astir N43 billion, the mean outgo is astir N500 cardinal per kilometre. And we had 2 bridges, 1 implicit the Ogun River and past 1 astatine the Ogbomoso end.”
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