Coastal highway: No damage to completed section – Umahi insists

There is no damage to any of the completed works on Section 1 of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, the Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, said on Thursday.

Umahi gave the assurance during an inspection of the Section 2 of the highway project.

He said there was need to emphasise that there was no damage to the section 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.

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.

The minister commended the contractor handling the project, Hitech Construction Company Ltd., for quality and speed of work.

“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.