Second Niger Bridge Set To Be Opened By By FG ON Thursday Night
The Minister of Works Babatunde Fashola, has
confirmed that the second Niger Bridge will be officially opened by 12:01 AM
Thursday, December 15 2022 to January 15, 2023.
The Minister Of
Works Fashola who took a walk around the bridge during an inspection urged road
users plying the bridge to drive safely and responsibly so that the purpose of
building the bridge will not be defeated.
According to the
minister, the second Niger bridge will alleviate the suffering of a motorist
who always experiences gridlock during the Yuletide.
He also added that it
would become counterproductive if the users of the bridge becomes reckless and
attracted to avoidable mishaps upon themselves.
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Fashola
said;
“A lot of people have talked about
a solution but the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration decided to
build the bridge whatever it took. So, wherever the funds came from, investment
income, from our oil assets, and repatriation of some funds that were stolen
out of Nigeria came in from the US.
“The result is now what we see.
When people are talking about poverty, the biggest part of it is not monetary
poverty, is multidimensional poverty.
“When you spend two to three days
trying to cross a bridge, that’s poverty, because it should take just a few
minutes so that you can go and do more productive things.
“The President approved that since
the bridge is finished that we should create an access road so that during
Christmas you can begin to experience what it would feel like plying the
bridge.
“The maximum speed limit on
Nigerian roads is 100km per hour. Don’t drive 101km per hour. The President
will be happy to see users drive safely and responsibly while using this road,
especially during this Christmas and New Year seasons. The President wishes you
a merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
“It would be open for traffic going
from the west to the east from the 15th Dec 2022- the 15th of January 2023.
“Let me be
clear again; we haven’t finished construction work on the bridge but we would
open it for people to use to relieve the pressure from the one bridge. On January
15, 2023, we would reverse that movement for those coming from the east to the
west.”
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