Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememen, told a gathering of journalists in Abuja yesterday that the government have two major bridges to be partly funded from the funds to be realised in SURE programme. They are the Oweto Bridge in Kogi state and the second Niger Bridge.
“We also We shall make sure that all the bottlenecks on the second Niger bridge are resolved as we are also discussing with some concessionaires to take over the bridged and am sure when it is completed, there will be real economic boom in that area,” he said.
Onolememen also said a high powered government delegation led by the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is already in China discussing with some investors who have indicated interest to be concessioner of the federal highways.
He disclosed that the private concessioner to handle the Niger second bridge at Onitsha, which he said would cost about N100 billion would soon emerge and that Nigerians would be proud of the concessioner.
The federal, the minister said, would provide N30 billion of the amount while the concessioner would provide the rest of the money.
Onolememen also disclosed that the Federal Government has decided to link all the six geo-political zones with dual carriage roads as a means of enhancing road transportation.
Some of the dual carriage roads affected include the Abuja- Lokoja, Kano-Maiduguri, Onitsha-Enugu-Port Harcourt, and Shagamu- Ore-Benin roads.
