The Federal Government has taken delivery of the Second
Niger Bridge from the contractor, Julius Berger, seven months after the
previous administration inaugurated it.
The Minister of Works, Mr David Umahi, while addressing
journalists shortly after he was conducted around the road and the facilities
on Sunday by the Managing Director of Julius Berger, Dr Lars Richter, said he
was satisfied with the level of work done.
Umahi, while commending the previous and present
administration for doing a lot to bring the work to fruition, described the job
as “impeccable, very beautiful and well completed”.
According to him, we have light issues, 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 interchanges, 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 Ahmed Tinubu is very committed to the project,
and we are going to acquire more so that we can build service stations, filling
stations, restaurants, supermarkets and other facilities as we see in the
Western world.
“We are determined to do that; the need to do this with the
interchanges 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 with the bridge by
providing Closed-Circuit Television and some security personnel to provide
security assistance within five minutes.
Richter said the event was a technical handover after the
project was inaugurated by the former administration.
He said work was successfully completed in time and Julius
Berger had delivered the highest quality of work.
Also speaking, the Director, Bridges Design and
Construction, South, Federal Ministry of Works, Mr Bede Obioha, tasked the
residents around the second Niger bridge to help secure the already installed
facilities and those that are yet to be installed safely.
He commended the staff of his ministry and the contractors
for a job well done, and urged the road users and the residents to abide by the
rules of the road.
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