Minister of works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola.SAN has said work on Bodo-Bonny road, Rivers State will be constructed by December 2023.
According to The Guardian, Fashola during a project inspection on Tuesday stated that the project will be completed December 2023 even as he hailed the continued progress on the work, with or without Buhari in office.
His principal officer, the president, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is expected to vacate office after the 2023 presidential election in February.
“There is no fear about that and about the funding or the ability and competence of Julius Berger to deliver on the project and in superb quality,” he said.
Stressing that funding for the project comes from the Federal Government’s Tax Credit Scheme into which both Nigeria’s Liquefied Natural Gas and other big companies, like Dangote and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, are investing.
He said: “We are in Bodo trying to connect to Bonny Island. Contrary to what some people may say, the N200 billion invested in this BBR project is nothing compared to its long-term significance. This is my fourth time here.
“From the first time when I visited to really understand the project at hand, it was alarming that within one state, people could not connect with one another. They were being inhibited. But the Peace Committee set up for the project embraced all the communities in this project area. Thank God, they are all working together now.”he added.
