No damage to any completed sections on coastal road—Minister Umahi

By Olayinka Ajayi 

The Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, has dismissed claims that parts of the bequest coastal roads of the President Bola Tinubu-led authorities are damaged.

Umahi, during his on-the-spot inspection of the roadworthy successful Lagos, yesterday, commended the operation institution Hi-tech for the “magic performance” successful delivering 1 of the bequest projects of the President.

While urging naysayers to desist from raising mendacious alarms, the curate said, “I don’t cognize however galore times I person to explicate that there’s nary harm successful conception 1 of the coastal road.

“Everybody is present a contented creator; everybody is present an technologist of the coastal highway. It is the crushed I had to instrumentality journalists done the route. There is nary harm to immoderate of the completed sections. What these contented creators are showing is the monolithic sandfilling that we are doing, and until it’s covered, the rainfall is permitted to bash immoderate it wants to do.

“Again we person lone 2 1/2 km that we are tackling. I person directed the controller to let journalists to spell for inspection truthful they volition spot the grade of enactment being carried out.

“I bushed my thorax to accidental we don’t bash selective apportioning to contractors due to the fact that the materials are the same, truthful I springiness Hi-tech precocious kudos. They would person gone acold successful May, but we are observing. We cognize Hi-tech is susceptible of doing 1 km per day.

We gave them 36 months, but they person spent little than 16 months. In conception 2 they person done 10 km of factual pavement. You tin spot the improvement the roadworthy is going to bring not conscionable to Lagos and Ogun but adjacent to Calabar.”

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