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The Federal Government has negotiated the outgo of the Iddo Bridge rehabilitation from an archetypal N27bn to N17bn.
The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, made this known to journalists during an inspection of the span connected Friday successful Lagos.
He said, “Julius Berger quoted, I think, N27 cardinal oregon thereabout, but aft overmuch dialog and discussion, we present arrived astatine N17 billion.”
Umahi commended Julius Berger Nig. Plc. for demonstrating a consciousness of practice nether its caller leadership.
He described the institution arsenic a “born-again Berger”, attributing the breakthrough successful dialog to the knowing and openness of its caller managing director.
The curate reiterated the government’s committedness to prudent spending, insisting that each contractors indispensable align with the ministry’s standards and directives.
Umahi noted that the task had been reviewed from specified rehabilitation of the burnt conception to a large work.
He expressed interest implicit the mediocre information of the bridge, blaming it connected years of neglect and quality abuse, including amerciable concern and collisions by heavy-duty trucks.
He said that 3 spans of the span were severely damaged by fire, which helium attributed to activities of amerciable occupants who had built makeshift homes nether the bridge.
“They brought successful chemicals, built artifact walls and acceptable up homes. Then, they acceptable up occurrence that burnt the span and damaged 3 spans. Now we are going to hole the span completely,” Umahi said.
The curate said the Iddo Bridge, present with a headroom of astir 4.5 metres, had suffered important structural harm owed to continuous hits from trucks and amerciable structures beneath it.
He announced that the ministry would beryllium creating a headroom of astatine slightest 5.6 metres.
He said that the Federal Ministry of Works was committed to restoring the span for the information of each Nigerians and ensuring specified incidents would not hap again.
On the contented of displaced persons, the curate said that nary 1 would beryllium allowed to instrumentality nether the bridge.
“Nobody volition enactment nether Iddo Bridge again arsenic agelong arsenic I stay the Minister of Works.
“The lives of the radical are much important,” helium said.
He warned that the authorities would nary longer tolerate immoderate maltreatment of nationalist infrastructure.
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