Minister of Works, Engr Dave Umahi, has assured that the Lagos-Calabar coastal road project will decongest the Apapa Wharf, Apapa Ports and solve the problems of shallow shafts along the Apapa Wharf while actualising the full potential of the adjourning states.
He further clarified that the project will decongest the entire corridors of Lagos State starting from the Dangote Refinery, Lekki-Epe corridors, Free Trade Zones, Dangote Fertilizers and multinational companies along the axis.
Umahi stated this while inspecting the Chainage 8 of the Lagos-Calabar coastal road project adding that the project is a legacy project of the President Bola Tinubu administration to provide infrastructure across regions and states.
He commended the president for the 700-km coastal road project, applauding his efforts to achieve infrastructure across regions, shorelines and coastline states in the country.
Umahi affirmed that the ministry will speed up efforts to achieve the desired consolidation of the coastal highway project, stressing that the ministry is working effortlessly to commission the 30km section of the coastal highway by May 29, this year.
“We have been able to award section 147km, Section 255km that is the boundary between Lagos and Ogun State, we have awarded Section 3A and 3B in Cross River states. We have solar lights made of carbon credits, we have train tracks in-between the two carriage ways, and we are doing this with reinforced concrete of 275 mm thick with 120 mm rods and this concrete pavement has low emissions and the federal government will earn carbon credits again.
“We have cable channels and we are going to have the windmill energy installed along the coastline states which means we will have free energy along the adjourning states and coastline communities,” Umahi said.
