Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway: Much political sabre-rattling about little (1)

that the government has commenced the first phase of the construction of the N15 trillion, 10-lane, 700-kilometre Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway were fast and furious by those who particularly have an axe to grind one way or the other with the Presidency.

The third school of thought comprises nonchalant members who have no point of view one way or the other. This is not surprising in a society where the literacy rate and social media uptake are relatively low. The farther away they are from the project site, the more these members tend to grow in their numbers.

Those who allege a conflict of interest because President Tinubu and his son are very close to the Chagoury family – owners of the construction firm – are simply engaging in sophistry. As much as I loathe engaging in whatabouter arguments, I still can’t help it when Nigerian Trumpians who obidiently see nothing wrong in whatever POTUS Donald Trump says or does are the same ones who disobidiently gripe and snipe the most whenever a similar incident occurs in Nigeria.

What’s of utmost importance in such instances is having an effective system of checks and balances to ensure that everyone complies with regulatory requirements. And this is where hand-picking the Chagoury Group might be a sticking point, given that there was no public tender as required by the Public Procurement Act .

Critics and traducers of the Lagos-Calabar super highway posit that our road networks are so bad that it’s hardly surprising that Nigeria is ranked 131st out of 141 countries by the GlobalEconomy.com on road quality. This constitutes the basis of their demand that the Presidency should immediately end further works on the coastal highway and use the funds to fix our decrepit road infrastructure.

Given its 1,000-kilometre length, the Sokoto-Badagry highway project is projected to gulp as much as N20 trillion – a whopping N5 trillion above the cost of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road.

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