A gentle 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, nevertheless, minimize in, insisting that many Nigerians discussing the mission don’t perceive the engineering behind it.
“Let me educate you, Ojy Okpe. The coastal highway is not flooded and will never get flooded,” Umahi mentioned.
The minister mentioned many homes alongside the hall had been constructed about 50 years in the past beneath 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 street was raised above flood stage to stop water from getting into residential areas.
“The houses were built below the flood level. When we did our study, we found that we needed to raise the coastal highway above the flood level and that is what happened,” he mentioned.
Umahi mentioned the street 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 mission.
“Before the construction of the coastal highway, was there flooding within that area? The answer is yes. The coastal highway has nothing to do with flooding,” he added.
