Trans-Sahara Highway: Umahi directs contractors to minimise demolition of houses

The Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, has directed contractors handling the ongoing Trans-Sahara Highway task to minimise the demolition of houses and different properties on the roadworthy alignment.

Meanwhile, communities successful the Benue axis of the task pledged their enactment for President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Umahi gave the directive during an inspection of the Federal Government’s Trans-Sahara Highway task at the weekend, assuring residents and different stakeholders that the authorities was committed to delivering the strategical roadworthy infrastructure portion minimising its interaction connected big communities.

The curate explained that Section One of the Trans-Sahara Highway covered astir 123 kilometres from the Ebonyi axis to the Ebonyi-Benue boundary, portion Section Two extended astir 173.4 kilometres done parts of Benue, Enugu and Kogi states to the Benue River and Nasarawa boundary.

According to him, the combined magnitude of the 2 sections was astir 300 kilometres and, astatine a plan velocity of 100 kilometres per hour, the completed road would substantially trim question clip and heighten connectivity crossed the affected regions.

He said the task would person far-reaching economical implications for the South-East, North-Central and South-South regions, peculiarly by strengthening cultivation proviso chains, facilitat...