{"id":8971,"date":"2013-08-25T03:40:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T03:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/fg-spends-n21-2b-on-apapa-oshodi-expressway-new-contract-25-completed\/"},"modified":"2013-08-25T03:40:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T03:40:01","slug":"fg-spends-n21-2b-on-apapa-oshodi-expressway-new-contract-25-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/fg-spends-n21-2b-on-apapa-oshodi-expressway-new-contract-25-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Spends N21.2b On Apapa-Oshodi Expressway New Contract 25% Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ABOUT N21.2b is being spent by the federal government on the rehabilitation of the Section I Phase I and Section I Phase II of the Oshodi\/Apapa Expressway covering about 16. 5km<\/p>\n

    Government, at the weekend, awarded the contract for the reconstruction of Section I Phase II to construction giant, Messrs Julius Berger Nigeria Plc at the cost of about N15b. <\/p>\n

  While the Section I phase I covers 5.6km, the phase II covers 10.8km<\/p>\n

   The contract for Section I, which spans through KM 7 (Beachland Junction)- km12+ 600 (Sanya) right hand side, awarded to Julius Berger in November 2010 at the cost of N6.2b, has already been completed.<\/p>\n

   In a telephone interview, a Deputy Director in the Federal Ministry of Works, Godwin Eke, told The Guardian that work has been ongoing on Section I phase II, which the Federal Executive Council (FEC) announced over the weekend, adding that the project has attained 25 per cent completion.<\/p>\n

  Eke explained that the contractor mobilised to site since January, 2013 after receiving a Letter of Consent to start work on that phase while FEC formalises the contract.<\/p>\n

   When The Guardian inquired why the contractor was asked to commence work at the site before the project got its final approval from FEC, Eke said that the decision was taken considering the economic and political importance of the ever-busy road.<\/p>\n

  According to him, the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway is part of the Trans-Saharan Highway and the road links the nation\u2019s busiest airport and two biggest seaports.<\/p>\n

  Eke said that the federal government is committed to ensuring that the project is completed on schedule.<\/p>\n

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