The Federal Government has announced that the demolition of buildings along the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road will begin on Saturday.
Korede Keisha, the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos state, announced this during a press briefing in Lagos on Thursday.
She requested that all families whose homes were listed for demolition come to the Ministry’s Secretariat in Lagos to complete the necessary procedures.
She stated that the demolition squad will arrive on Saturday to commence the dismantling of the marked properties.
Minister of Works Dave Umahi recently stated that the Lagos-Calabar coastal road will take eight years to complete and will cost N4 billion per km.
The 700 km Lagos-Calabar coastal road will be constructed for N15 trillion, and a kilometre of the road will cost N4 billion. It is designed to connect Lagos to Cross River, passing through Ogun, Ondo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, and Akwa Ibom states, before culminating in Cross River.
The project has been heavily criticised by many Nigerians including the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, who described it as a misplaced priority by the Federal Government. Also, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar had described the project as a fraud, a comment which was refuted by the Presidency.