A light drama ensued on Arise Television on Friday when Minister of Works, David Umahi, informed anchor Ojy Okpe ‘let me educate you’.
This occurred throughout an unique interview which centered on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway.
The presenter had requested the minister about complaints that the freeway was inflicting flooding in Lagos communities.
The minister, nonetheless, minimize in, insisting that many Nigerians discussing the venture don’t perceive the engineering behind it.
“Let me educate you, Ojy Okpe. The coastal freeway is just not flooded and can by no means get flooded,” Umahi stated.
The minister stated many homes alongside the hall had been constructed about 50 years in the past under flood stage when there was nothing like local weather change, explaining that the world has the ocean on the appropriate and the lagoon on the left. He added that the highway was raised above flood stage to forestall water from getting into residential areas.
“The homes had been constructed under the flood stage. When we did our research, we discovered that we wanted to lift the coastal freeway above the flood stage and that’s what occurred,” he stated.
Umahi stated the highway has about 10 completely different evacuation channels and a number of culverts to take water to the lagoon, dismissing claims linking the freeway to flooding. According to him, flooding within the space began lengthy earlier than the venture.
“Before the development of the coastal freeway, was there flooding inside that space? The reply is sure. The coastal freeway has nothing to do with flooding,” he added.
