Umahi dismisses flooding concerns on Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway

The Minister of Works, Senator Dave Umahi, has dismissed concerns implicit h2o retention observed connected portions of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, assuring Nigerians that the task and different large bequest roadworthy projects of the Federal Government would beryllium completed by 2031.

Umahi gave the assurance on Friday during an inspection circuit of Sections One and Two of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway alongside members of the National Assembly to measure the advancement of enactment connected the project.

The curate was responding to complaints by immoderate roadworthy users and critics regarding reports of flooding and potholes connected parts of the road corridor.

Addressing the concerns, Umahi explained that the h2o noticed on the median was linked to the project’s plan proviso for a aboriginal railway line.

According to him, the median conception was specifically created to accommodate obstruction infrastructure.

“The median was designed for trains. What radical are seeing determination is astir 25 metres wide, astir equivalent to different dual carriageway,” helium said.

He explained that excavated portions wrong the median had been sand-filled, adding that though the railway constituent was expected to commence immediately, drainage channels would present beryllium constructed to forestall h2o accumulation.

“The railway task has not started yet, truthful we person directed the contractor to make due ...