Tinubu govt will commission Lagos-Ibadan Expressway June 30 – Fashola

Tinubu govt will commission Lagos-Ibadan Expressway June 30 – Fashola

 

Final work on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway will be rounded off next month and the road commissioned by the incoming administration of Bola Tinubu on June 30, Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said.

He said this on Tuesday during an extraordinary Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari in the State House, Abuja.

Fashola said the inability to complete the last lap of the road project by April 30 was due to the discovery of black cutting soil under the pavement and needed to be properly handled.

“There is a critical section in the four-kilometre last mile to Lagos. It is technical but what has delayed it is that we found black cutting soil under the pavement.

“We have decided that we will remove it and replace it so that we do a proper job instead of being in a hurry to commission it. That will be deferred to the next administration and the expected completion date is the 30th of June.”

Fashola later invited President Muhammadu Buhari to virtually commission some projects embarked upon by his ministry across the country.

They include the Dr Goodluck Jonathan Federal Secretariat in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State; the Ebele Okeke Federal Secretariat in Awka, Anambra State; and Malam Yahaya Gusau Federal Secretariat in Gusau, Zamfara State.

Others are the Loko-Oweto Bridge linking Nasarawa and Benue states; the Ikom Bridge in Cross River State and the completed section of the over 200km Kano-Kaduna dual carriage road.

The minister also confirmed that the newly commissioned Second Niger Bridge had been named after President Buhari.

“And because my colleagues in cabinet and the governors of the South-East who have spoken to me have decided that the Second Niger Bridge must have a name, in consultation with them, we have decided we would also declare open the Muhammadu Buhari Second Niger Bridge linking Anambra State and Delta,” he said.