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Lagos To Abuja Will Take Four Hours Through Proposed Super Highways — Umahi
Lagos to Abuja by road will take just four hours through the proposed super highways, says Minister of Works, Umahi.
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, said that road trips from Lagos to Abuja will take just four hours when President Bola Tinubu-led Administration completes the super highway projects being undertaken across the country.
Umahi stated this during a visit to Ogun and Oyo States on Thursday in continuation of his highway inspection tour, according to a statement by the Director Press and Public Relations unit of the Ministry of Works, Blessing Lere-Adams on Friday.
The Minister of works noted that the super road projects being proposed by Tinubu’s presidency would solve major road infrastructure problems that are being experienced by Nigerians across the country.
While being hosted by Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State in Abeokuta, the minister of works stated that the efforts of making Nigerian roads smooth and motorable had started in Lagos with third mainland bridge.
He said :
“I have been in Lagos since Monday, basically inspecting bridges in Lagos. Let me make it very clear that the public have no fear about the integrity of the Third Mainland Bridge.
“Every structure maintenance after so many years after construction. The little defects here and there need to be fixed. We fix it in such a way that it won’t inflict pains on Nigerians.
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“Nobody should be afraid of the integrity and stability of the Third Mainland Bridge. We are working on Eko Bridge right now. We are going to look at the Carter Bridge.
“Your excellency, we have started the inspection already in your state. Let me thank you for the beautiful road you built along Epe. I was rather flying, not driving on that road. It links Lagos and what it means is that those going to the North and the east can easily avoid the Island.
“Let me announce to you that the Lagos proposed 4th Mainland Bridge is going to tear off with our proposed Super Highway which will take off along Epe. Majority of it is going to be in Ogun State and it will take us four hours from Lagos to Abuja. We had presentation on that yesterday (Wednesday). It’s going to be on PPP.
“We are concluding on that. Within the next two months, work will start on that project and that will further interconnect states to the federal capital. We’ve inspected the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, a total of 127 kilometres. But majority of the road is in Ogun State, I think about 81kilometres.
“Let me announce that the entire pavement in Ogun State have been completed. Berger is doing about 43kilometres of the road, while RCC is doing the rest. The entire stretch of the road will be ready by the end of September. But there will still be other small works going on; the drainage, median works, will take us to end of November.”
