A senior official at the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing said, on Tuesday, that the reconstruction project on the Wharf Road had just achieved 10 per cent completion.
Speaking while inspecting the project site, the supervising official in charge, Olukorede Keisha, said that the delay was due to the presence of gas pipes and other utilities in the road’s Right of Way (RoW).
She said that the contractors handling the project had taken the necessary steps to resolve the problem, adding that 200 metres of concrete road and 230 metres of drains had been constructed on section one of the project.
“The project is about 10 per cent completed; we’ve finished 230 metres of drain and 200 metres of concrete road on section one. We have about four layers of road to make the pavement rigid; the road thickness is 600mm.”
“There is no need to relocate the pipelines again; the pipes are encased. We had to redesign, in order to safeguard the pipes for work to continue.”
She noted that the redesign gave the opportunity for deep excavation to lay a solid foundation for a durable concrete road, while assuring that rehabilitation work had begun on the bad portions of the road.
According to Keisha, the ministry would use the Christmas holiday to take care of the most critical portions on the reconstruction zone and other roads in Apapa.
A food vendor, Mrs Kaka Kolo, appealed to the Federal Government to increase funding for road repair in Apapa. Trailers are the ones spoiling the road always. The best thing is for government to give contractors more money to repair roads
“Government should not wait for potholes to get big and trailers start falling before it does something,’’ she said.
