The Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, has assured that the Lagos-Calabar coastal street mission could be constructed inside the two-term tenure of President Bola Tinubu administration at the same time as he revealed that the President has additionally authorised the design of Sokoto-Badagry freeway mission as a part of efforts to enhance financial diversification.
The minister made the comment on Sunday throughout the inspection of Lagos-Calabar Coastal Freeway mission and federal authorities’s gazetted right-of-way in Lagos.
He famous that the federal government was dedicated to bettering the financial diversification of the nation by committing to growing street initiatives that can enhance financial corridors for enterprise development.
Umahi defined that the Sokoto-Badagry freeway street is 1,000 kilometres and the mission has been designed and authorised by the Tinubu administration as a part of the Renewed Hope agenda.
“We’ve got one other street mission that can join Enugu to Cameroun,” he acknowledged.
He mentioned the federal authorities was dedicated to constructing coastal roads in South-West, South-South, North-West, North-Central and main geopolitical areas of the nation as a part of his legacy initiatives.
Umahi additional famous that the coastal and freeway initiatives will straight impression on the economic system, herald international traders, enhance ROI, and entice multinationals into the nation’s financial hub whereas bettering the GDP.
He warned that each one people who have strayed into authorities’s lands will probably be correctly addressed because the lands and shorelines alongside the federal authorities’s gazetted right-of-way will probably be reclaimed.