Benin-Asaba Expressway: Nigerian Govt orders immediate review of road concessions

The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has ordered a reappraisal of concession agreements connected large roads nationwide, amid the worsening information of the Benin-Asaba Expressway.

Umahi issued the bid connected Tuesday aft inspecting the dilapidated highway, wherever roadworthy users were reported to person been stuck for immoderate days owed to the gridlock.

The curate said helium was not satisfied with the Benin-Asaba Expressway Concession Company, BAECC, alleging that the steadfast lacked the method competence to execute the project.

Umahi specifically slammed the concessionaire for removing existing asphalt connected sections of the road careless of warnings from the Ministry of Works, attributing the concern of the roadworthy to the action.

He added that officials of the institution could person faced apprehension for destroying nationalist property, noting that the roadworthy was not successful its contiguous information erstwhile it was handed implicit to the concessionaire.

According to him, the authorities would authorisation concessionaires whose activities enactment nationalist infrastructure and roadworthy users astatine risk.

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