YPP candidate urges National Assembly to summon Umahi over highway cost

The statesmanlike campaigner of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Arch. Peter Agada, has called connected the National Assembly to summon the Minister of Works, David Umahi, to explicate the ₦15.6 trillion outgo of the 770-kilometre Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway.

Agada, who spoke successful Abuja on Tuesday, questioned the outgo of the project.

He argued that the authorities needed to supply Nigerians with a wide breakdown of the magnitude and explicate however it was determined.

He described the terms tag arsenic excessive and called for greater transparency successful the execution of the road project.

“Nigerians merit worth for money, not a task whose outgo defies planetary reality,” Agada said.

The YPP campaigner compared the highway’s reported outgo with estimates for different large roadworthy projects crossed Africa, arguing that the quality raised questions astir the government’s costing process.

He claimed that Nigeria was spending astir $11.2 cardinal connected the 770-kilometre highway, portion the estimated outgo of the 10,000-kilometre Cairo-Cape Town Trans-African Hig...