The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has stated that a flyover will alleviate floods along the Abuja-Lokoja highway.
The minister announced this on Tuesday, a day after his inauguration, on a journey to assess ongoing construction work on the Abuja-Lokoja route.
The minister, along with Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello and senior ministry directors, visited certain road construction projects.
According to him:
“We have seen the area that always gets flooded at the Koton Karfe section and the only solution to it is to do a flyover on it to fly above the flood level. That will really work because it is about 1.6 kilometres which will take five flyovers, you know, multiplied by two.
“So we are going to be making a proposal and submit to Mr President to give us his nod because we are looking for permanent solutions to our problems.”
The Kogi governor praised the minister for picking the state as his first field assignment in his speech.
Bello stated:
“For Mr President to deploy the Honourable Minister a day after swearing- in to come and look into this particular problem is commendable. I think we can’t ask for more.
“The road is going to be designed in such a way that no matter the flooding that will ever come, our road will stand the test of time, and I thank you sir.”
cc: Punch Ng
