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The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, has given the assurance that the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is being constructed to withstand flood for about 50 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Umahi gave the assurance at a stakeholder engagement on Section 2 of the highway project on Sunday in Lagos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe will make sure that our pavement level is going to counter any climate change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to him, the pavement level would be at the first floor of many buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTo retain the road, we are going to be building retaining board. It has already started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe also have the cable duct so you don\u2019t have to cut the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMTN, African Plus or any other network doesn\u2019t have to cut the road. The cables are there, I saw them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He reiterated that there would be closed circuit television cameras on the road so that the response time for any issue would be less than five minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The minister also said that the highway would have an evacuation corridor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201d We are going to be earning carbon credit by the reason of the use of concrete pavement which will have no emission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said that there would be trees all through on the road to make it exciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have the Dangote Refinery. You need about 60 metres clearance for the trucks to go in and out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are now building a flyover that has a span of 60 metres, and then the next span is 41.6 metres counterbalance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are flying over Dangote Refinery, and the seven axial road is coming. It is going to be a point to behold. It is going to be another tourist site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201d Let me announce that along the corridor, there are lands that the state government has given us the right so we can build what I call relief centres where you can stop to have snacks, buy petrol.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that supermarkets and medical facilities would be part of the centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Umahi thanked stakeholders for their support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLet me thank you all for coming to this public engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere are some people who are here not because they have money to claim but because of the love they have for this development.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also praised the contractor handling the project, Hitech Construction Company, for excellence and timeliness. NAN<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, has given the assurance that the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is being constructed to withstand flood for about 50 years. Umahi gave the assurance at a stakeholder engagement on Section 2 of the highway project on Sunday in Lagos. \u201cWe will make sure that our pavement level is going to counter any climate change,\u201d he said. According to him, the pavement level would be at the first floor of many buildings. \u201cTo retain the road, we are going to be building retaining board. It has already started. \u201cWe also have the cable duct so you don\u2019t have to cut the road. \u201cMTN, African Plus or any other network doesn\u2019t have to cut the road. The cables are there, I saw them.\u201d He reiterated that there would be closed circuit television cameras on the road so that the response time for any issue would be less than five minutes. The minister also said that the highway would have an evacuation corridor. \u201d We are going to be earning carbon credit by the reason of the use of concrete pavement which will have no emission.\u201d He said that there would be trees all through on the road to make it exciting. \u201cWe have the Dangote Refinery. You need about 60 metres clearance for the trucks to go in and out. \u201cWe are now building a flyover that has a span of 60 metres, and then the next span is 41.6 metres counterbalance. \u201cWe are flying over Dangote Refinery, and the seven axial road is coming. It is going to be a point to behold. It is going to be another tourist site. \u201d Let me announce that along the corridor, there are lands that the state government has given us the right so we can build what I call relief centres where you can stop to have snacks, buy petrol.\u201d He added that supermarkets and medical facilities would be part of the centres. Umahi thanked stakeholders for their support. \u201cLet me thank you all for coming to this public engagement. \u201cThere are some people who are here not because they have money to claim but because of the love they have for this development.\u201d He also praised the contractor handling the project, Hitech Construction Company, for excellence and timeliness. NAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23615,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23613\/revisions\/23615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}