Tinubu’s Legacy Tasks Unfold Throughout 6 Geopolitical Zones — Umahi

The Minister of Works, Engr David Umahi has reiterated that President Bola Tinubu’s legacy tasks within the highway sector passes by all of the six geopolitical zones of the nation.

Umahi said this throughout a Steady Stakeholders’ Engagement on the Lagos – Calabar Coastal Freeway in Lagos, after a 4-day working go to to challenge websites in some South-West states.
The minister, in a press release by the Director Info within the Ministry of Works, Mohammed Ahmed mentioned the continued 750-kilometre Coastal Freeway Legacy Undertaking begins in Victoria Island, Lagos, and ends in Calabar, Cross River State.

Umahi confused that the highway passes by the South-West, South-South, in addition to the South-East zones of the nation.

He defined additional that one other challenge is the Abakaliki – Abuja Freeway, which commences at Abakaliki, Ebonyi State within the South-East, passing by a number of cities and villages within the North-Central zone and terminating at Apo within the Federal Capital Territory.

The Minister added that the Ilelah (Sokoto) – Badagry (Lagos) is traversing the North-West right down to the South-West zones and on the similar time, the fourth is deliberate to take off from Akwanga in Nasarawa State to Jos, Plateau State within the North-Central zone and passing by Bauchi, and ending in Gombe State, each within the North-East zone.

Umahi applauded President Tinubu for his ingenuity in initiating this lofty tasks, which he famous not as mere highway and bridge infrastructures however investments within the nation’s collective future.

“These Legacy Tasks needs to be welcomed and inspired by all Nigerians for his or her {economic} derivatives relatively than being politicised,” he admonished.

The Minister reaffirmed that the legacy tasks are a testomony that the President is working in all geopolitical zones.
He additional revealed that among the accomplished sections of the tasks might be commissioned in Might 2025.

Earlier in her welcome speech, the Federal Controller of Works, Lagos State, Engr. Kesha Olukorede said that the engagement with stakeholders on the Lagos – Calabar hall is a steady one to resolve all thorny points.

She additional mentioned that this assembly additionally gauges the residents’ emotions concerning the gigantic challenge.

Whereas appreciating the minister for his readiness to fulfill with affected communities and people alongside the hall, she additionally thanked the folks for the utmost cooperation given to the contractors executing the contract.

Talking on the assembly, the Director, Highways, Bridges and Design, Engr. Bede Obiora disclosed that the aim of the gathering was to interact stakeholders which might be individually or collectively affected by the development of the 103-kilometre alignment inside Lagos State.