Minister of Works, David Umahi has announced plans by the Bola Tinubu to construct 477 kilometre six-lane Super Highway transversing five states to the Federal Capital Territory.
This was disclosed by Umahi on Wednesday while declaring open the stakeholder’s engagement on the alignment for Ebonyi’s 101km segment of the super highway.
He said that the highways would transverse Cross River, Ebonyi, Benue, Kogi, Nasarawa to Abuja, and would economically revolutionalise Ebonyi and the interconnecting states.
The minister said that the road was an agricultural and economic corridor that would support President Bola Tinubu’s drive for food sufficiency in the country.
“The highway will be an agricultural and economically viable route that would enable Ebonyi for instance, to evacuate farm produce such as rice, yams, and potatoes to other states of the country.
“These farm produce are found in large quantities in such routes but cannot be evacuated due to poor road network.
“The road is a spur of the coastal highway that runs from Lagos to Calabar and was designed by the colonial masters to integrate the Southeast states,” he said.
He called for support from all stakeholders to actualise the project noting that President Tinubu placed great emphasis on the infrastructural revolution of the country.
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