PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu will in August flag off construction on 107km Sections 3B and 4 covering Cross Rivers and Akwa Ibom states on the much anticipated Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway.
Minister of Works, Sen David Umahi announced Saturday in Uyo while addressing Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and other Akwa Ibom leaders in stakeholders’ engagement on alignment for construction of the Highway.
Both Sections totalling 107km transverse communities including Esuk Inwang, Ndom Ebom, Ikot Akpabio, Ikot Inyang, Nsia Oron, Oyoku Asang, Urua Okok, Ekpene Edi, Ntete, Esuk Ntete, Akepeti Creek, Kwa Ibo, Atabrikang Aquaha, Atabrikang Ekeme, Iko, Amadaka and Okoro Inyong. “We’ve started the second section there, ending at the border between Lagos and Ogun, a total of 55.77km, for Section 2. And Mr President directed that Sections 3 an 4 must start at Cross Rivers and Akwa Ibom.
“There are so many benefits of this Highway I have enumerated. But if you look at the Lagos Section, we have been having a lot of problems and spending lots of money because of the shallow nature of Apapa Wharf. On the non commitment of contactors on the Calabar-Itu Road, the Minister said, “By end of this coming week, if Julius Berger fails to re-mobilise to site and CCECC fails to re-mobilise to at least 3 Sessions, their jobs will be terminated.”
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