The
Senate had during its plenary on Thursday adopted a motion seeking to return
the contractors handling road construction work along Apapa-Oshodi Expressway
in Lagos back to the site due to the nuisances the bad road constitute to commercial
activities due to its accessibility to the Tin Can Island Port and pother user.
The Upper
chamber arrived at the resolution following the submission of a report of the Committee on
Marine Transport by its chairman, Senator Ahmed Sani, and consequently took a
position to issue a directive to the Federal Ministry of Works to resume
the rehabilitation of the road without further delay noting that the economic
importance of the road to the nation at large cannot be overemphasized.
From
the findings, the committee disclosed that the two construction firms handling
the rehabilitation of the main road leading to the Apapa Port left
the site on account of the debt by ministry which it put at N11.7 bn.
In a similar vein, the panel disclosed that the
contractors handling construction of the Trunk Holding Bay had also abandoned
the work due to a debt of N1.5bn.
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