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
The minister said, following the gazetted alignment, and
order of the EIA assessment, over 750 houses were expected to be demolished in
the old alignment while 450 houses were marked for demolition in the new
alignment after thorough assessment of the project along the Okun-Ajah community
axis.
Umahi also explained that the project approval followed the
process and went through the Bureau of Public Procurement (BBP) after
consideration by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) as prescribed by law.
Umahi said the project followed certification process and
Environmental Impact Assessment Acts and lent credence to it and followed the
processes involved.
Umahi noted that BPP issued a certificate of no objection on
the project to the Ministry of Works in line with the Procurement Act but added
that the Ministry of Works took the certificate of no objection to FEC and FEC
debated and approved it.
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