Second Niger Bridge To Be Opened For Christmas Festivities- FG
AFNews Reporter
Dec 09, 2022
The Federal Government says it will open the Second Niger Bridge from Dec 15, 2022, to January 15, 2023.
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Babatunde Fashola (SAN) who is the Minister of Works and Housing made this known on Thursday during an interaction with Journalists.
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According to him, the FG is taking the measure in other to relieve pressure from the bridge currently used for the Christmas season.
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He said that even though the construction of the bridge has been completed, work is still ongoing on the road linking the bridge to the major highway.
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Fashola said, "We have completed work on the bridge, so if you go there now you can walk from one end of the bridge to the other or drive from one end of the bridge to the other but the connecting road that links that bridge to the main highway, is what we want to finish.
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"What delayed us is rain and the stop work orders on Mondays in that part of the country.
"The President approved that since the bridge is finished that we should create a access road so that during Christmas you can begin to experience what it would feel like plying the bridge.
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"It would be open for traffic going from the West to the East from the 15th December, 2022 to 15th January 2023.
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"Let me be clear again: we haven't finished construction work but we would open it for people to use to relive the pressure from the one bridge, it wouldn't be available for heavy duty trucks, it would only be small vehicles for now until we finish our work.
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"On the 15th January we would reverse that movement for those coming from the east to the west. We have told all the contractors that they shouldn't open anymore sections for construction i.e. there shouldn't be any barrier on the roads this season.ÔÇØ
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— AFNews Reporter