Umahi: How Tinubu’s renewed hope legacy road infrastructure projects affects C’River
Ani Bassey
The Federal Government of Nigeria in line with the actualization of its Renewed Hope Legacy Road Infrastructure Projects earmarked the construction of a Coastal Highway from Lagos to Calabar and the Calabar South East-North Central-Apo(Abuja) Superhighway.
In line with this and to enlighten stakeholders, the government through the Federal Ministry of Works, under the leadership of Senator David Umahi scheduled a stakeholders engagement in Cross River State.
The engagement aimed to enlighten communities on the proposed projects, unveil the corridor of project and also get the buy in of stakeholders.
Principal stakeholders invited to the meeting included the state governor, Senator Bassey Otu, legislators and traditional rulers.
Cross River State will benefit from two road projects of the government.
The first is the section of the Lagos to Calabar Coastal Road alignment which covers 38 km and is described as Section A.
The second project is the covers 92km and is a segment of the Calabar South, East-North Central-Apo(Abuja) Superhighway.
The 38km section of the Lagos to Calabar Coastal highway in the state will pass through nine villages which comprises Njahasang, Aru Unayama, Ikot Eno, Ifako Okoyong, Epiri Adiabo, Obot Akpang, Obot Eyo, Ikot Efiok-Ekpenyong, Okpoko in Cross River State.
Similarly, based on the design of the 92km segment of the Calabar South, East-North Central-Apo(Abuja) Superhighway, communities to benefit from the project are Okoyong Usung Abasi, Njahasang, Nyene kusun, Okurike, Udam, Adim in Cross River State.
The project will be executed using concrete technology and will have a rail track on the sides.
The procurement process for both projects is underway and actual construction work is scheduled to take off in August, 2024.
In terms of kilometres, Cross River State is the second largest beneficiary under the Renewed Hope Legacy Road Infrastructure Projects with a total of 130km.
