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Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Biodun556(op): 7:55pm On Oct 12

Why Diversion of Coastal Highway to East-West Road Is A Masterstroke — And South-South Is Not Deceived

Since the Honourable Minister of Works, Senator Engr. David Umahi, announced President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's directive to divert the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway through the existing East-West road from Ondo to Edo, critics have shouted "South-South deceived."

As someone who stands with the Federal Government on this project, let me explain why this diversion is not betrayal, but engineering wisdom.

1. THE SWAMP WOULD HAVE SWALLOWED TRILLIONS

The original coastal route from Ogun to Ondo is not land. It is ocean swamp. Umahi disclosed they encountered pits 10 to 20 metres deep — that is 30 feet of water and mud. You pour sharp sand today, the Atlantic carries it tomorrow. To build a 6-lane concrete highway on that terrain would cost N30 billion per kilometre and still collapse.

Mr. President's instruction — "Divert, do not do any new alignments. Pass the coastal highway through the existing East-West road" — saved Nigeria from waste.

2. EAST-WEST ROAD ITSELF NEEDED RESCUE

Every Nigerian knows East-West road — Ughelli, Patani, Ahoada, Bayelsa — is a death trap every rainy season. It was built 40 years ago before climate change. The President's new plan is to raise the entire road by 2 metres above flood level, with reinforced concrete, solar lights and proper drainage.

This is two projects in one: South-South gets a flood-proof, concrete highway, and the coastal highway still moves forward.

3. THE PURPOSE IS STILL SERVED

The initial purpose of Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway was never to count how many coastal villages you pass. It was to:
a) Connect Lagos Deep Sea Port to the South-South and South-East
b) Reduce travel time from Lagos to Calabar from 12 hours to 5 hours
c) Open up trade for 30 million Nigerians
d) Create toll revenue for government

All four purposes are still achieved. The 45km Benin Bypass will even save drivers from Benin City traffic. A businessman moving goods from Eko Atlantic or Lekki Port to Calabar will still use this same road.

4. CALABAR IS STILL THE DESTINATION

The road has not stopped. Section 5 — 82km in Akwa Ibom — is under construction. The 67km Sections 4A and 4B in Ogun/Ondo are being filled. The diversion is only 104km from Ondo to Edo, after which the alignment continues to Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and terminates in Calabar, Cross River. South-South governors including Sheriff Oborevwori have commended the decision.

CONCLUSION

Those saying South-South was deceived are playing politics. The South-South was not deceived — the South-South was saved from having two abandoned roads. Today we will have one strong, flood-proof, concrete highway that still goes from Lagos to Calabar.

Tinubu is not building Lagos only. He is building Nigeria with engineering sense.

South-South is still connected. The road still reaches Calabar.

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Biodun556(op): 8:01pm On Oct 12

The only section affected is Ondo and Edo States, we need to appreciate the president for his patriotic ambition but he needs to accept Engineering advice or else the project will not stand the test of time.

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Zionmdde: 8:12pm On Oct 12

Biodun556:
The only section affected is Ondo and Edo States, we need to appreciate the president for his patriotic ambition but he needs to accept Engineering advice or else the project will not stand the test of time.

An engineer who doesn’t envisage all that during conceptual, FEED and detailed engineering stage should be sacked

I sha love the way people like you are quick to run out to defend. Assume Tinubu said that despite the trillions it will swallow, the original plan will not change, you and your likes will still run out to hail him

Na wa oooooo
I thought zombies were only in movies

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by saintopus(m): 8:15pm On Oct 12

You people will explain tire! A foooolish decision remains a fooooolish decision. From the inception of the project lovers of Nigeria keep on saying how futile the project was. First from the 15 trillion naira budget, to the awarding of the contract to a relatively unknown company.
People from the South- South have been crying for help to repair the East- West road. The government didn't see it reasonable enough. They now realise how it was a white elephant project so to admit the massive failure they now decided to connect the road to the East- West road. I was waiting to see how they will construct the road through Bonny river in Rivers State to Okrika LGA then to Azumini in Abia state and cross to Akwa Ibom.

It's a massive failure from the president and Omahi they failed woefully.

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Biodun556(op): 8:18pm On Oct 12

Zionmdde:
An engineer who doesn’t envisage all that during conceptual, FEED and detailed engineering stage should be sacked

I sha love the way people like you are quick to run out to defend. Assume Tinubu said that despite the trillions it will swallow, the original plan will not change, you and your likes will still run out to hail him

Na wa oooooo
I thought zombies were only in movies

The issue is not about trillions he will spend, the issue is despite the trillions, swamp will still swallow the project in that axis

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by DatNiggaDaz: 8:21pm On Oct 12

The emil00kaan Epistles of Coastal highway to fraud

Starrng: propagandists hypocrites, data boiz and the Lagos Kitchen cabinet

Director: the coven of mandate snatchers

Producer: the faaake certttifficcate hollldderr aka Bobo Chicago

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Racoon(m): 8:21pm On Oct 12*

Dave Umahi was asked about these kinds of EIA exigencies by the Arise TV journalist. Instead of him to explain or provide the said document, he started grandstanding and flew into a rage just to defend this doomed coastal highway of fraud.

Now, the govt is deviating from the original master plan. So how did they arrived @the #15T contract sum? How will they accommodate this new budget etc. Dave Umahi is a very nasty arrogant but self deluded man

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Biodun556(op): 8:28pm On Oct 12

Zionmdde:
An engineer who doesn’t envisage all that during conceptual, FEED and detailed engineering stage should be sacked

I sha love the way people like you are quick to run out to defend. Assume Tinubu said that despite the trillions it will swallow, the original plan will not change, you and your likes will still run out to hail him

Na wa oooooo
I thought zombies were only in movies

Third Mainland bridge was diverted, rerouted caused delayed for 10 years before it was completed

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by HIGHESTPOPORI(m): 8:31pm On Oct 12

Biodun556:
The issue is not about trillions he will spend, the issue is despite the trillions, swamp will still swallow the project in that axis

Is this not what the opposition have been saying,it's a waste of money,it's now tinubu is realizing abi

Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Justiceleague1: 8:34pm On Oct 12

Everything about this APC party is pure evil, wickedness bitterness arrogance.....

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Dogalmighty17: 8:39pm On Oct 12*

OP. There is only one question I'll ask you. 15 trillion was budgeted for this road. What drove that valuation in the first place?

Government indicates desire to get a project done, contractors do site, terrain and landscape evaluation and come up with a cost. Government then selects a bid from the different bids from different companies that were submitted.

Government selected Hitec for this project. The company is assumed to have done assessment of the entire terrain and then submitted it's cost evaluation based on the depth of its findings. If the federal government is announcing a change of terrain now, then how competent was Hitec as a company? What pedigree did that company have to execute Nigeria's biggest road project in the first place?

The president drove the allocation of this significant project to his friend. A Lebanese. They have a relationship going back decades. Competence was not a factor in consideration. This is how we got to this point. The government is stepping in to correct the errors of a private firm. An incompetent one at that.

This is shameful and has validated the concerns of everyone from the beginning.

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Zionmdde: 8:45pm On Oct 12

Biodun556:
Third Mainland bridge was diverted, rerouted caused delayed for 10 years before it was completed

As I said before, any engineer that fails to foresee those challenges in pre execution stages that could cost billions of Naira should lose his job

Of course you guys will always find another failure to justify Tinubu’s failure. Always there to defend every nonsense

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Zionmdde: 8:47pm On Oct 12

Biodun556:
The issue is not about trillions he will spend, the issue is despite the trillions, swamp will still swallow the project in that axis

So when they developed that project on paper, they didn’t see that?

It’s only in politics failure is justified

No wahala let Tinubu ask for more loans to fund the new plans, sorry for people like you that will not still see one naira extra added to your 30k stipend

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Zionmdde: 8:54pm On Oct 12

saintopus:
You people will explain tire! A foooolish decision remains a fooooolish decision. From the inception of the project lovers of Nigeria keep on saying how futile the project was. First from the 15 trillion naira budget, to the awarding of the contract to a relatively unknown company.
People from the South- South have been crying for help to repair the East- West road. The government didn't see it reasonable enough. They now realise how it was a white elephant project so to admit the massive failure they now decided to connect the road to the East- West road. I was waiting to see how they will construct the road through Bonny river in Rivers State to Okrika LGA then to Azumini in Abia state and cross to Akwa Ibom.

It's a massive failure from the president and Omahi they failed woefully.

Ask the data boys of the ESIA for the project and why these environmental concerns were not covered in that report and you see the kind of things that support tinubu

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Biodun556(op): 9:01pm On Oct 12

Zionmdde:
So when they developed that project on paper, they didn’t see that?

It’s only in politics failure is justified

No wahala let Tinubu ask for more loans to fund the new plans, sorry for people like you that will not still see one naira extra added to your 30k stipend

How will you see the depth of a swamp on 700 km road on paper?

Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Validated: 9:02pm On Oct 12

UNA GO EXPLAIN TAYA, NO EVIDENCE.
When we warned of this what was your response?
Stop DECEIVING Niger-Delta people whose Trillions you sunk into Yoruba projects. There is NOTHING like Coastal Highway, but Lagos-Ogun Highway, just to open up Ogun Deep Seaport and Chargoury's Eko Atlantic.

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by AustineE1: 9:17pm On Oct 12*

This op sound as empty and deceptive as the usual APC propagandists.
O the president knew all along that the East-west road is a death trap like many other federal roads in Nigeria but yet,he ran quickly to vote trillions of Naira for the coastal high way of fraud,without environmental assessment,only for them to encounter the so called swampy holes along the line.
Money that could have been able to fix the existing federal roads,was allegedly given to the Chagoury's whom have business ties with the Tinubu family.
This is the best definition of misplaced priority.

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Sheuns(m): 9:19pm On Oct 12

Umahi must be picked up immediately after his tenure.

This is not even supposed to be defended. How would an engineer that had given a cost of a project make a U-Turn and say some areas would cost more?

That simply means he’s quack and should be jailed.

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Gotocourt: 9:20pm On Oct 12

Biodun556:
How will you see the depth of a swamp on 700 km road on paper?

How did they award the project for 15 trillion undecided

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Zionmdde: 9:21pm On Oct 12

Biodun556:
How will you see the depth of a swamp on 700 km road on paper?

What did you study in school again?

Or rather what job do you do in real life minus singing Tinubu praises?

Do you know what preliminaries mean for a project?

A little lesson for you, every good project is completed on paper before translating it to the site, every major challenge is most likely foreseen. It is called Detailed Engineering

Na wa oooooo

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Gotocourt: 9:22pm On Oct 12

Biodun556:
Why Diversion of Coastal Highway to East-West Road Is A Masterstroke — And South-South Is Not Deceived

Since the Honourable Minister of Works, Senator Engr. David Umahi, announced President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's directive to divert the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway through the existing East-West road from Ondo to Edo, critics have shouted "South-South deceived."

As someone who stands with the Federal Government on this project, let me explain why this diversion is not betrayal, but engineering wisdom.

1. THE SWAMP WOULD HAVE SWALLOWED TRILLIONS

The original coastal route from Ogun to Ondo is not land. It is ocean swamp. Umahi disclosed they encountered pits 10 to 20 metres deep — that is 30 feet of water and mud. You pour sharp sand today, the Atlantic carries it tomorrow. To build a 6-lane concrete highway on that terrain would cost N30 billion per kilometre and still collapse.

Mr. President's instruction — "Divert, do not do any new alignments. Pass the coastal highway through the existing East-West road" — saved Nigeria from waste.

2. EAST-WEST ROAD ITSELF NEEDED RESCUE

Every Nigerian knows East-West road — Ughelli, Patani, Ahoada, Bayelsa — is a death trap every rainy season. It was built 40 years ago before climate change. The President's new plan is to raise the entire road by 2 metres above flood level, with reinforced concrete, solar lights and proper drainage.

This is two projects in one: South-South gets a flood-proof, concrete highway, and the coastal highway still moves forward.

3. THE PURPOSE IS STILL SERVED

The initial purpose of Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway was never to count how many coastal villages you pass. It was to:
a) Connect Lagos Deep Sea Port to the South-South and South-East
b) Reduce travel time from Lagos to Calabar from 12 hours to 5 hours
c) Open up trade for 30 million Nigerians
d) Create toll revenue for government

All four purposes are still achieved. The 45km Benin Bypass will even save drivers from Benin City traffic. A businessman moving goods from Eko Atlantic or Lekki Port to Calabar will still use this same road.

4. CALABAR IS STILL THE DESTINATION

The road has not stopped. Section 5 — 82km in Akwa Ibom — is under construction. The 67km Sections 4A and 4B in Ogun/Ondo are being filled. The diversion is only 104km from Ondo to Edo, after which the alignment continues to Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and terminates in Calabar, Cross River. South-South governors including Sheriff Oborevwori have commended the decision.

CONCLUSION

Those saying South-South was deceived are playing politics. The South-South was not deceived — the South-South was saved from having two abandoned roads. Today we will have one strong, flood-proof, concrete highway that still goes from Lagos to Calabar.

Tinubu is not building Lagos only. He is building Nigeria with engineering sense.

South-South is still connected. The road still reaches Calabar.

By Fattykolly Ibn Alimi

https://www.facebook.com/share/1C7X74DmnE/

As directed on their WhatsApp group grin

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Obapluto: 10:51pm On Oct 12

If na wike hold this project.. by now we for don dey 60%

Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by manmade(m): 11:05pm On Oct 12

God bless president tinubu and God bless Nigeria

Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Akpaamunsi: 11:17pm On Oct 12

Umu anu ofia, you go explain tire.
Tinubu must go next year.

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by FEGNO: 1:11am On Oct 13

Honestly after Tinubu I do not know how I will perceive and deal with a Yoruba person. For this Government they saw white and called it Black. Just like this OP is now trying to do

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by KillahPriest: 1:36am On Oct 13

You people seriously think you're talking to teletubbies and chickens. What did you say when Nigerians asked for Environmental Impact Assessment which would have included soil analysis ? Your minister was speaking grammar while offsprings of satan were violently clapping and abusing anybody who asked a logical question. The hypocrisy, sycophancy and wickedness of the average broom waving demon shocks even there devil himself and that's putting things lightly

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Eboofa: 2:52am On Oct 13

Biodun556:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1C7X74DmnE/

So ndiyoruba actually want the business of the eastern region? why can yorubas get their goods from onne port or ibom port?

Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Typing: 6:20am On Oct 13

Biodun556:
The issue is not about trillions he will spend, the issue is despite the trillions, swamp will still swallow the project in that axis

Didn't they know there are Swamps at those locations before they commence the project without visibility studies? Tinubu is incompetent and Umahi is more incompetent.

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Luchitec(m): 6:32am On Oct 13

Dave Umahi is a huge disgrace. He will probably go down as the worst minister to superintend the Ministry of Works.

Zionmdde:
An engineer who doesn’t envisage all that during conceptual, FEED and detailed engineering stage should be sacked

I sha love the way people like you are quick to run out to defend. Assume Tinubu said that despite the trillions it will swallow, the original plan will not change, you and your likes will still run out to hail him

Na wa oooooo
I thought zombies were only in movies

Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by shox: 6:37am On Oct 13

Biodun556/fsboperator really chop am for this thread. His fellow data boys avoided him like a plague

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Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by Educationalserv: 6:37am On Oct 13

Biodun556:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1C7X74DmnE/

All the completed and ongoing na for Yoruba land

Re: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway; Ogun To Ondo Swamp Would Have Swallowed Trillions by MemphitzDgreat1(m): 6:38am On Oct 13

We have told you many times that Lagos-Calabar Fraud is to open Eko Atlantic City to so many lands that Tinubu had grabbed fraudulently across the coastal area of Lagos. When I tell you a thing, don’t debate it.

Tinubu is the biggest fraud in the history of mankind. We know him more than you.

Go and listen to Senator Engineer David Nweze Umahi, CON for more details. 🤣🤣🤣

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