According to David Umahi, Minister of Works, the proposed Lagos 4th Mainland Bridge Supersonic Highway will shorten the trip from Lagos to Abuja to four hours.
Umahi made this declaration while visiting Ogun and Oyo states on Thursday, August 31, as part of his highway inspection tour, according to a statement issued by Blessing Lere-Adams, director of press and public relations for the Ministry of Works.
Umahi was cited as saying the following when speaking with Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun in his office in the state’s capital, Abeokuta: “Let me announce to you that Lagos proposed 4th Mainland Bridge Supersonic Highway will take four hours to drive from Lagos to Abuja. We had a presentation on it yesterday with the consultant and it’s going to be on Public Private Partnership (PPP), Driving from Lagos to Abuja will take 4 hours, we are concluding on it within one or two months and work will start.
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“We have a programme called Highway Development Management Initiative (HDMI) and it allows states and other private investors to engage with the Federal Government either to take over a fully constructed road to toll and maintain it in partnership with FG or take a brand new road and reconstruct it and toll it under laid down agreement.
“I am very much open to that, we also bring some road architecture into this kind of arrangement. Solar lights where we can fix CCTV to monitor our roads and increase visibility; this will largely reduce insecurity and also create service stations. We can monitor security at these service stations; we have mini clinics, toll vans at these stations just as we see outside the country.”
