Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road: Demolition of Buildings Set to Begin Saturday

The Federal Government has declared that the demolition of buildings located within the right of way of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road will commence this upcoming Saturday.

According to Channels Television, the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos State, Korede Keisha, made this announcement during a press briefing held in Lagos on Thursday.

Keisha urged all residents whose houses are earmarked for demolition to visit the ministry’s secretariat in Lagos to address any necessary procedures required by the ministry. She stated that the demolition team would initiate the removal of the marked properties on Saturday.

“This press briefing is to create awareness for all those that may be involved or have one or two things to do along that project corridor,” Keisha stated. “We’ve sent out demolition notices to as many as are within the right of way, and we are using this medium now to say that everyone that has any concern within that corridor and has been served, the secretariat is open to them from today, 3pm.”

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“We are welcoming them from today till tomorrow. Whatever you have to do along that axis, and then we’ve come to you and marked you down for demolition, we are asking that you see us at the secretariat from today till tomorrow evening. Thereafter, the demolition squad will move to action by Saturday morning for the first three kilometres.”

“For the first three kilometres, anything within the right of way of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway will be brought down from Saturday morning,” she added.

Keisha emphasized the importance of residents within the zero to three-kilometre radius of the project to take necessary actions if they have been marked for demolition.

Meanwhile, Minister of Works Dave Umahi recently disclosed that the construction of the Lagos-Calabar coastal road is anticipated to span eight years and cost N4 billion per kilometre. The entire 700 km road is estimated to cost N15 trillion, with each kilometre costing N4 billion. This road is designed to link Lagos to Cross River, traversing Ogun, Ondo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, and Akwa Ibom states before reaching Cross River.