Landmark employees protest as FG begins sand filling for Lagos-Calabar highway

in the Oniru area of Lagos, staged a protest on Wednesday, as the federal government begins the sand filling of the beachfront for the construction of the coastal highway.

The 700-kilometre Lagos-Calabar coastal highway is expected to run through nine states and would have a railroad running through the middle. In an interview with Arise Television on April 7, Paul Onwuanibe, the chief executive officer of Landmark Africa, said the original plan for the coastal highway did not include the beachfront.The businessman who obtained the land in 2007, said “the alignment was changed so that instead of it running on the land side of Landmark, it is going to run on the beach side”.

“Now they are looking to put the road on the beachfront and just immediately after Landmark it turns and goes back to its original alignment.Advertisement, Onwuanibe described the highway as a “laudable project that should enhance tourism rather than destroy it”, adding that the management of Landmark is in “active talks” with the state and federal governments.

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