Lagos-Calabar coastal highway: FG to start demolishing structures on its way

Beginning at the Lagos end, the Federal Government has begun demolishing homes impacted by the Lagos-Calabar super highway’s right of way.

When he announced the start of the drill weekend, Minister of Works Engr. David Umahi gave the impacted parties the assurance that it will be conducted humanely.

In a statement released yesterday in Abuja by his Special Advisor (Media), Orji Uchenna Orji, the minister assured that the building of the Lagos-Calabar coastal route will be a significant step forward in the Renewed Hope pathway towards economic diversification.

Umahi said: “We are doing some minor adjustments, and our commitment is to stay within the coastline.

”When the initial demolition order was passed to all the affected investors, so to speak, I graciously increased the period to another seven days and yet another four days, and here we are because the project stopped because of the part of this demolition, and I want to commend the likes of Mr Bolaji.”

While flagging-off the demolition exercise, the minister said: “This demolition is going to have a pure human face and so with the utmost fear of God, gratitude to God Almighty and commitment to the Renewed Hope agenda of President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in our infrastructural development in particular, I wish to flag-off this demolition exercise to get a right of way within the coastal corridor which is the legitimate right of the Federal Government.”