FG Halts Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road Project Realignment

The federal government has shelved and diverted realignment
of Lagos-calabar coastal road projects while also saving the telecommunications
infrastructure and submarine cables, among others at the axis.

With the presidential directive, Telcos, MTN submarine
cables, and workstations along the Okun-Ajah community axis have been saved
from demolition after a thorough assessment of the EIA impact on infrastructure
and business activities along the Okun-Ajah community axis.

The minister of Works, David Umahi, while addressing
stakeholders meeting in Lagos on Compensation and Environmental Impact
Assessment on the coastal road project informed community groups and
traditional institutions in the state, particularly the Okun-Ajah community in
Lagos.

Earlier, the Okun-Ajah community cried out and warned the
federal and Lagos State governments over the alleged illegal variation to the
Lagos-calabar coastal highway route which put six villages at the risk of
demolition and also the displacement of three traditional kings within the
Community if the plan was not shelved.

Umahi buttressed the need to redesign the route to save the
600 years ancestry of Okun-Ajah community, adding that, the president, out of
compassion to realise the project, added human phase to save property and
infrastructure of Okun-Ajah axis while applauding efforts of the president to
divert alignment routes to save the communities from the ongoing demolition
exercise stretching along the indigenous communities in the state