Dr Ugo Egbujo.
Someday, a tribunal will sit on the coastal road project.
Nothing can be hidden under the sun.
A president awarded a multi-trillion naira project to his business partner. The project had barely started when they suddenly discovered there were telecom lines on the route.
A multi-trillion naira project:
- No surveys
- No tender
- No bidding
- No costing
And the minister wouldn’t answer any questions.
The minister had said the contractor would source all the money. Then he changed and said the country would contribute 15–30%. He wasn’t even sure of the exact percentage contribution. Then suddenly, the FG threw over a trillion into the project.
When a young lady dared to ask if there was an environmental impact assessment, Umahi mocked her. Two weeks later, Umahi said they didn’t know there were telecom lines on their path.
Rufai Oseni asked what the cost per kilometre was; Umahi dismissed the legitimate question as illiterate.
A few days later, Umahi announced that the scope of the project had been reduced. It was no longer a total of 10 lanes — it would now be six lanes. Just like that.
The entire thing was arbitrary, haphazard, shifty.
When Obi said the road was a wrong priority for a country whose existing roads were crumbling, saying the road would require 30 years for completion, Tinubu and his men scoffed at him.
When Amaechi said he would stop the road and fix the East-West road first, they mocked him.
Now Umahi has childishly confessed that the day Tinubu approved the re-routing of the road to the East-West road was the best day of his life. Guy must have been living a miserable life.
A few days ago, he had told us that he chose the project and chose the contractor without any prompting from Tinubu. He wanted to fool us into believing that Tinubu didn’t award the contract to his business partner.
If the best day of his life is now the day Tinubu agreed to a partial discontinuation of the coastal road, then Umahi has been living in bondage all the while.
But the joke is on the clown.
Because almost the entire country knew that Tinubu was only interested in the Lagos-Ogun corridor, and he wasn’t going to complete no coastal road. 🤣😢
