The Federal Government says
the partial closure of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State begins from
Friday midnight July 24, 2020 to January 23, 2021.
The Minister of Works and
Housing, “Babatunde Fashola”,
announced this on Tuesday at a press briefing in Abuja.
“He stated that between 2015
and 2019, the government undertook a survey of all the bridges in Nigeria to
determine their conditions and the urgency of repairs that should be done on
them.”
“Fashola” said, “Some were critical, others
were less critical and the Third Mainland Bridge is one of those bridges.” - At
the time we estimated that we will need about N277bn to do all of that work
over a period of four years.
“We didn’t get the budget
that we expected, but we got something and we have started some work over the
last few years. Currently, we have intervened on 37 bridges across the country,
doing maintenance work and all of that.”
The
Special Adviser to Lagos state govnor. on works “Aramide Adeyoye” said they’ve map out ten major alternative roads that
will be ok for road users after the close down of the bridge.
According
to BBC Pidgin, “Aramide” complain
for di many bad roads wey dey di state and say na di plenty dirty wey residents
dey put for gutter dey cause am.
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