On Thursday, the federal government announced that the demolition of structures along the first three kilometres of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway will begin on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
The announcement was made by the Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Korede Keisha, at a press briefing held in Lagos.
According to Keisha, demolition notices have been served to the owners of the structures along the coastal highway long before now.
She, therefore, charged the property owners who received and had any unaddressed reservations towards it to visit the secretariat of the Federal Ministry of Works from today, Thursday, April 25, until tomorrow, Friday, April 26, to discuss their challenges.
Keisha said, “We’ve sent out demolition notices to as many as are within the right of way, and we are using this medium now to say that everyone who has any concern within that corridor and has been served, the secretariat is open to them from today, 3.00 pm. We are welcoming them from today until tomorrow.
“Thereafter, the demolition squad will move to action by Saturday morning for the first three kilometres. For the first three kilometres, anything within the right of way of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway will be dropped down from Saturday morning.”
According to the FG, the 700-km Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project, though it has faced several backlash from Nigerians, is a development that will outlive the President Bola Tinubu-led administration.
News About Nigeria reported that FG estimated that the 700-kilometre Lagos-Calabar coastal road will be constructed for N15 trillion, and a kilometre of the road will cost N4 billion.
