FG Flags Off Construction of Section 3A of Lagos-Calabar Highway

Bassey Inyang in Calabar

President Bola Tinubu yesterday in Akamkpa, Cross River State, flagged off the construction of the Section 3A of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway, covering about 23 kilometres, expected to link the 3B section of the road in Akwa Ibom State.

The Minister of Works, David Umahi, while speaking at the event said that the road is strategic, and at completion would enhance the national road infrastructure, reduce congestion, and play a significant role towards improving the conservation of the environment.

He said the section 3A and Section 3B covering a length of 65 kilometres will stretch from Cross River State, and Akwa Ibom State, respectively.

Umahi called on full cooperation of the people of Cross River state so that the road would be constructed and completed on schedule, promising that people of the local communities would be carried along in the construction of the road.

The State Governor, Senator Bassey Otu, who represented Tinubu at the ceremony described the road project as a job creation booster that will better the lives of the people of the state when it is fully completed.

“The road project is going to create jobs for Nigerians. I call on Cross Riverians to reawaken their entrepreneurial skills by maximally taking advantage of the road project when completed”, the governor said.

He stated that with the recent ground breaking ceremony of the Special Agro Industrial processing Zone (SAPZ) in the State, the road will serve as an evacuation corridor for products from the zone.

Otu promised that as the state governor, he would do everything within his administration’s powers to ensure that the project succeeds from the Calabar end.