by James Sambo

President Goodluck Jon­athan paid a visit to the site of the second Niger bridge project at the Onitsha-Asaba axis, on Saturday, to ascertain the true position of work at the multi-billion naira project which he said is very critical to his admin­istration.

“I decided that I must visit the site of the second Niger Bridge to know the level of work there because some people have been saying all sorts of things, so I said I must visit the site before coming to pay courtesy call on His Majesty. Work is in prog­ress on the project,” Jonathan assured.

President Jonathan further disclosed that the federal gov­ernment had released N10 bil­lion for the project out of which over N1.5b was used to pay damages as part of efforts to ac­celerate work on the project.

His words: “We have released N10 billon for the project out of which N1.5 billion was used to pay damages. I also discovered that work is really in progress as the access road that will lead to the bridge that is about 3km has been graded just to make sure that there is access to the site and I spoke with the management of Julius Berger and they assured me that the project will be com­pleted within 40 months.”

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