THE NATION
The federal government has taken delivery of the second Niger bridge from the contractor, Julius Berger, seven months after it was inaugurated by previous administration.
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, while addressing reporters shortly after he was conducted round the road and the facilities by the Managing Director of Julius Berger, Dr Lars Richter, said that he was satisfied with the level of work done.
Umahi, therefore, commended the previous and present administrations for doing quite a lot for bringing the work to fruition, saying that the job was very beautiful and well completed.
He said: “We have light issue and we’ve put things together on how to permanently have light especially at night.
“What we have agreed is to deploy solar solution in the coming weeks so that every night we don’t have to run diesel.
“The roads are going to be completed when we have completed the two inter changes, one is taking us off from Asaba town to cut off the traffic and the other one is going to be done by Reynolds Construction Company (RCC) Ltd to avoid Onitsha town and take you straight to Obosi.
“President Bola Tinubu is very committed to the project, we’re going to acquire more and so that we can built service stations, filling stations, restaurants and supper markets and other facilities as we see in western world.
“We are determined to that, the need to do this with the inter changes is going to be a very smart one, so that over the years we can have a beautiful and maintained road”, he said.
The minister further assured of security within the bridge by providing Closed-circuit (CCTV) cameras and some security personnel…
