Visible
work will soon be seen on the Second Niger Bridge located in the
South-eastern part of Nigeria following the deployment of contractors.
File Photo
Work will soon begin on the Second Niger Bridge as the Federal
Government has mobilised contractors to the site of the project,
according to The Authority.
The cheering news was broken on Wednesday in Abuja by the Managing
Director of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), Mr. Uche
Orji.
At a press conference in Abuja, Orji said that the completion of
the multi-billion naira Second Niger Bridge linking Asaba in Delta
State and Onitsha in Anambra State would be done because the Federal
Government was handling it with dispatch.
He admitted that time had been lost in the execution of the
project, but declared that with the mobilisation of contractors to the
site, work would be accelerated on the project, adding that a new
financing structure had been adopted.
According to Orji, “the Second Niger Bridge, I would say, went
through a phase where there was a pause, as we went through a kind of
transition from one government to another. We have reconciled most of
the issues and we are working to get back on course with funding. I
think the contractors have been mobilised once again and so they will
get back to work.
“There is a new financing strategy which is being discussed,
which we are driving along with the Federal Ministry of Works. Once that
is agreed, you will see a significant progress on that bridge in the
next couple of years.
“We did lose time, while we were trying to complete the
transaction process and there are people who are working on this in the
ministry.
There was a bit of period of time loss but we are back on
track. “But the financing structure is changing and once this is
approved, we will move faster”, Orji said.
Also yesterday, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved $38
million for the construction of the Nigeria-Cameroun border link bridge
at Ekot-Ifiom in Cross River State. The consultancy services will cost
additional $1.9 million.
The project, which is supervised by the Ministry of Power, Works
and Housing, will be supported by the African Development Bank and is
expected to improve relationship between Cameroun and Nigeria,
especially in view of the International Court of Justice judgement
over the Bakassi Peninsula.
The Minister in charge, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), told journalists
that it is part of the link road to Enugu-Abakiliki Highway which is
already being completed and also part of the larger Lagos/Mombasa
superhighway.
He further explained that “the Cameroun bridge is $38 million
for the construction contract and $1.9 million for consultancy and
supervision of the bridge under the African Development Bank
procurement guidelines.”
Fashola said that another approval by FEC was the resuscitation
and completion at a cost of N32 billion, of the Kaduna Eastern Bypass
Highway which was started in 2002, and initially planned to have been
completed in three years.
The 50-kilometre dual carriage way with nine bridges over rivers
and rail crossings, is yet to be complete 15 years after and the cost
has escalated.
“When the project was first awarded in 2002 it was N16
billion. We have had to get approval for a N22 billion variation and
that takes the total project cost now to N32 billion.”
Outgoing Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed, also announced
FEC’s approval of the Revised National Policy on Environment which was
first formulated in 1991 and last revised in 1999. The second revision
is 2017.
Mohammed explained that “it has become imperative that we have
this new policy framework because what we really wanted to do is to
capture some of the emerging issues that have come since then as regards
to environment.
“These concerns such as climate change, coastal erosion,
desertification, erosion, pollution and insecurity which have been
exacerbated by the struggles for environment resources, we see this in
the country at all levels.”
She also disclosed that a team from her ministry had gone ahead to
secure the site of a toxic dump in Delta State while relevant regulatory
agencies are trying to fish out the culprits.
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