Babatunde Fashola, Nigeria’s minister of works, power and housing, late Thursday evening, visited the collapsing section  of the Ijora-Apapa Bridge.

 

Details of the minister’s visit to the danger zone as at the time of this report were sketchy. However, Hakeem Bello, the special adviser to the minister on media, when contacted, promised to unveil the details later.

 

Fashola was accompanied on the visit by Godwin Eke, federal controller of works and Georges Mohanna, managing director, Buildwell Plants & Equipment Industries Ltd, which gave the impression that the company might be drafted to provide a palliative measure to enable motorists access the failed portion which had been  cordoned off for some days now.

 

Hon Minister of Power, Works & Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN (middle), Federal Controller of Works, Engr. Godwin Eke (right) and Managing Director of Buildwell Plants & Equipment Industries Ltd, Engr. Georges Mohanna(middle) during the Minister’s inspection of the failed portion of the  Apapa-Ijora bridge linking the Apapa Central Business District with Lagos Island in Lagos on Thursday 4, August 2016.
Hon Minister of Power, Works & Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN (middle), Federal Controller of Works, Engr. Godwin Eke (right) and Managing Director of Buildwell Plants & Equipment Industries Ltd, Engr. Georges Mohanna(middle) during the Minister’s inspection of the failed portion of the  Apapa-Ijora bridge linking the Apapa Central Business District with Lagos Island in Lagos on Thursday 4, August 2016.

JOSHUA BASSEY

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