Niger Bridge may collapse soon – UNIZIK VC
Written by Vanguard
Thursday, 19 November 2009 10:09



The Vice-Chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Prof. Boniface Egboka, has said that the Niger Bridge at Onitsha, Anambra State could collapse any time from now.

Egboka spoke in Awka on Wednesday, as the Senate Committee on Works asked the Federal Government to take full responsibility for the construction of the second Niger Bridge at Onitsha.

The vice-chancellor, who addressed journalists at the council hall of the university, said that as a hydro-geologist, he felt really sad about the state of the bridge.

“The Niger Bridge is carrying the load it was not designed to carry. It is calamitous. It is ecologically distressing. There should be a situation where heavy duty vehicles do not stand on the bridge. The two checkpoints should be dismantled, while stalled vehicles on the bridge should immediately be towed away,” he pleaded.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Works, Julius Ucha, has asked the Federal Government to take full responsibility for the construction of the second Niger Bridge.

Ucha, who led members of the committee on the inspection of the first bridge in company with Anambra State Governor Peter Obi, said the National Assembly had appropriated N4bn for the second Niger Bridge project in the current budget. He regretted that nothing had been done about the project.

The Federal Government had awarded a contract for the project in 2007, conscripting the Anambra and Delta State governments as joint financiers.

But the two state governments rejected the conscription, saying they were not consulted and that they did not have the financial muscle to support the project.

Ucha, who also decried the state of the terrible state of federal roads in the South-East, said appropriate sanctions should be meted out to failed contractors.


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Another view

Bigger view.

Until this bridge collapses, Nigerian government will do nothing about it.

and when they award the contract, manny people like you will say it is not necessary.

^^^ true lol

walakolobo:

and when they award the contract, manny people like you will say it is not necessary.

Why do Nigerians talk without reasoning first? Why?

walakolobo:

and when they award the contract, manny people like you will say it is not necessary.

Why do Nigerians talk without reasoning first? Why?

The destruction attached to its collapse will be unimaginably catastrophic. May God Almighty save us from all natural and man created disasters in Jesus' name.


But then our government should jump into swift action to avert disaster.

E don happen

I thought they claimed that Gej don do am

Then I will say conveniently that they did not Vote wisely

Just hatred for Buhari made them to vote blindly

Oya wailers quote me

Later one idiot called Udmaster will compare this poverty stricken land to Niger delta

AjiereTuwo:
Later one idiot called Udmaster will compare this poverty stricken land to Niger delta

the bridge connects your fathom niger delte ( delta state) to south east.

your brain needs upgrade, see what tribalism has done to your reasoning.

olaitoro:


the bridge connects your fathom niger delte ( delta state) to south east.

your brain needs upgrade, see what tribalism has done to your reasoning.

Its the genelogy of your entire tribe that needs upgrade

olaitoro:


the bridge connects your fathom niger delte ( delta state) to south east.

your brain needs upgrade, see what tribalism has done to your reasoning.

Its the genelogy of your entire tribe that needs upgrade, idiot

The collapse of the bridge cannot be a bad thing....it will help stem the migration of iboe refugees to our land...I hope the NDA help bring it down so that Biafra can happen....

author=AjiereTuwo post=49873875] Its the genelogy of your entire tribe that needs upgrade, idiot

tribe. tribe. tribe.
dont bring me down to your tribal bigotry level.
I have passed that your tribal sentiment level.

@post
Its collapse wont stop Ibo from escaping hardship to find refuge in Yorubaland.