Umahi hails Tinubu as construction of section 2 of coastal highway hits 12km

By Lydia Chigozie-Ngwakwe

The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi has described the construction of 12 kilometers in the Section Two of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway as evidence that the hands of God are on the project.

Sen. Dave Umahi made this known on Thursday in Lagos as he noted that the Federal Government has intensified efforts to complete the highway project within schedule.

The Minister who spoke to journalists during a tour of the highway project also commended the contractor, Hightech Construction Company Ltd., for the milestone recorded in the project.

Umahi said that the sand filling would be completed in the next 40 days.

“When we have done all this work, and then we cover it, and then we put pavement, nobody will understand what has happened.”

According to him, in some places, there are over 20 feet of sand filling and in some others, there are over 26 feet.

“Hitech is capable of doing one kilometer of the coastal highway per day.

“We are not afraid about the timing. We gave them 36 months.

“On section two, they have done over 10km of concrete pavement.

“In the next seven days, they will start concreting, and you can see the massive filling,” he said.

Umahi said that the contractor handling the project had manufactured up to 30 dredgers for sand filling.

“If you don’t have these dredgers, which you are seeing here, you cannot do this work.

“I want to commend them (Hightech) very highly. This is an example of partnership in the development of this country.

“I believe that the hands of God are upon this, and I commend Mr President very highly. He is a man of great courage.”

Umahi also described Tinubu as a man on divine mission.

“God brought him to do this. You can see the development this is going to bring, not just in Lagos State,” he said.

Umahi also insisted that there was no damage to any of the completed works on Section 1 of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway.

Umahi He said this was necessary to avoid misleading of the public by those pushing out falsehood on social media.

“There is no damage to the completed section. What you can have is this massive sand filling that we are doing, and then the stone base.

“Until it is covered, the rain is permitted to do whatever it wants to do. In all, it does help us technically.

” We have two and half kilometres that we are tackling,” he said.

(NAN)