The Director-General, of Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Aminu Diko has said that the construction of the second Niger Bridge may be
He revealed this after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, noting the importance of the road, and urging the people to be patient with the government.
According to him, “The second Niger bridge is one of the projects that we discussed with the President. We did say yes it is in the commission for regulatory oversight.
“The communities around that area are clamouring that their lands have been taken and that they have not been compensated adequately. As a matter of fact, we got a letter from Onitsha traditional council complaining that they have not been adequately represented in this transaction.
“These kind of issues we are not saying that something has not been done properly but we need to be convinced that these few problems are sorted properly.
“We will also talk about the actual cost of the bridge, eventually we have asked the ministry of works to review it and justify how much the project should cost.
“For the second Niger bridge there will be a lot of studies that needs to be done on the integrity of the bridge itself which will take time. It is not something we can see being completed in the next six months.
“I will like us to be patient about it. We know that it is a critical road. We also know how Nigerians suffer during festive holidays and we hear people sleep on that old bridge. The time has come for us to bring succour Nigerians” he said.
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