Umahi orders contractors to open multiple work fronts on superhighway project

Works Minister, David Umahi, has directed contractors handling the Calabar-Ebonyi-Benue-Kogi-Nasarawa-Abuja Superhighway to unfastened aggregate enactment fronts and intensify operation activities.

Umahi gave the directive at the weekend during an inspection of the ongoing project, stressing that contractors indispensable deploy capable manpower and resources to accelerate transportation portion ensuring that existing buildings on the alignment are protected.

The curate said the acquisition was indispensable to flooded engineering challenges encountered on the route, including rivers and swampy sections, and guarantee that operation progresses simultaneously astatine antithetic locations.

According to him, contractors indispensable find engineering solutions to hard terrain without compromising the prime oregon durability of the highway.

“I bash not judge successful engineering that thing is impossible. We’ve sat this greeting and we’ve agreed however to transverse the bridge,” Umahi said, directing the contractor handling Section Two to unfastened astatine slightest 3 enactment fronts.

He besides ordered that nary gathering should beryllium demolished simply due to the fact that it falls wrong the projected alignment without further method assessment.

“My directive is that nary gathering should beryllium touched. Even if it’s wrong the alignment, I person to travel and realign it,” he...