‘Coastal Project Irrevocable’, Umahi Puts Cost Of Project At N15 Trn With 8 Years Completion Period 

Good engineer perhaps but a poor public servant… The problem in Nigeria is that way too many people (both in government and among the governed) appear to have no clue about governance. That’s why this same dude was being lauded as a ‘good’ governor when he was governing one of the poorest states in the country and the only one in the SE (possibly in the entire Southern Nigeria) classified as “educationally disadvantaged” and opted to build a vanity so-called “international” airport (that’s presently virtually non-functional) when there was a perfectly good international airport less than an hour’s drive away in Enugu. Not to mention building several flyovers for a population that mostly relied on bicycles, motorcycles and tricycles. DEVELOPMENT SHOULD BE ABOUT PEOPLE, not things! Destroying the businesses and livelihoods of possibly tens of thousands of citizens (your employers) when there is a perfectly reasonable solution is shockingly poor governance. There’s a reason in advanced democracies one can hardly rename a street or school without an open hearing and vote.

Very brilliant and on-hands technocrat

I swear. He is good

This is the first true minister of works

It makes no sense to build the coastal highway right on the coast. It makes more sense to build it behind the beach front businesses. Water damage will be an issue for any road built right on the coast.

Did Public Procurement laws followed? Some of you are enmeshed in emotions and that is why Nigeria is where it has been for years? There was no bidding process. Umah is aware of those nonsenses. In USA, Tinubu will be impeached.

Check the failed project of airport in Ebonyi

This happens when novice listen. The need more Consultation. Let it not be an elephant peoject

Correct. It's one thing to dream, and it's another thing to bring that dream to fruition. Let this not be like the Umahi Ebonyi International Airport that NEVER COME TO LIFE!

​@@creativemecksdave1319 You might be right, but i guess Ebonyi State with some of its Native surroundings not ripe for an Int'l Airport yet. ...white-collar education (awareness) has better get its priority first).

Very objective analysis, arguably the Minister of Internal affairs including the Minister of Trade and Business are equally pulling their weights in their respective portfolios. The weakest links in the cabinet ministerial dullards starts with the loquacious and ignorant Minister of Power and a host of others that are overdue for redeployment or dismissal on critical assessments going forward. Thanks bro..

Your 419 analysis small.

You can really tell 😊

Man transformed his state from a red sanded village to arguably one of the most beautiful cities in the east He's not new to it

Check all the failed project he initiated while he was in Ebonyi as state executive

Lol 😊

I personally remember how people castigated this man back in some few years ago.

​@ikgodwin7492 😂😂😂 I also remember. Judging a book by the cover.

Hahaha... you don't know Umahi.

Due to traffic congestion people may encounter while coming from Mainland, starting all the project from Jakande will not be appropriate.

Firstly, Landmark's real reason for their media blitz is cos they want to keep access to the beach which they never owned in the first place as by law, it always belonged to the Federal Government Secondly, relocating the Coastal road to pass through Water Corporation road means there would be even more demolitions as that area is heavily built up. Do those other property owners not matter too? Third, once we start making exceptions for private business-men over national interest, where does it end?

​@@adelekep69 The houses in water corporation how much are they worth? Secondly, does that area employ the same number of people as Landmark and provide business for other people? I ask this without any malice. I just want to make my own comparison.

Read ur statement and see if u made sense , so employing 5000 people is equivalent to demolishing 5000 homes , mind u the most of landmark employees lives in the cheapest part of Lagos , do it math , the homes are worth more than his business

@@ayoknightz9037 Employment is as important as homes. So here we are speaking of employing 5000 people plus the investment of over $100 million. Then also throw in the bad light it casts Nigeria in to wake up and demolish businesses worth so much. Some of us are just asking with a plain mind.

Don’t be a killjoy? You have no idea the economic impact of this project

​@@henry2396 after 8 years of the completion ? 😂😂😂 What is the economic impact of Kano-maradi, 2nd Niger bridge, Kaduna railway by Buhari 😂😂😂 Na your type dem like;

⁠frankly if you are this unaware about the economic effects, there’s no need for debate. Good day.

​@@henry2396God bless u

​@@henry2396 Is it after the 8 years of completing the project we would see the economic effect?? Let's wait for 8 years it's the coastal road that will save us from the economic hardship, strengthen the naira, and make Nigeria stop being poverty capital of the world... Lagos-ibadan of how many kilometer is being repaired since time of Obasanjo, let alone 700km Lagos Calabar. Dey play

They don't care! The minister is the city planning committee and everything by himself.

Good point.

@@diligenceeke3023 that’s why our country keep looking cringe and dirty. We need serious people.

Look very well you will see the reason

Projects that would have been done and masses enjoying it. They want to embezzle our resources, while we have damaged roads scattered around Nigeria

We are just in year 1 and you are already complaining negatively 😂😂😂😂

The government officials don't appreciate the beaches. The road is going to destroy all the beaches this unbelievable Across the world, coastal roads don't sit directly on the shore line because of ocean surge.

Gbam!

EXACTLY!!! Why are people clapping for this project. I don’t even think it is well thought out. So we won’t have breaches anymore because of a road?

If they are bent on coastal road, it must not affect the beach along the coastal road.

​@@Oluyhemiefagreed. A coastal road should not be too close to the coast as this gives room to easy access to smuggling and illicit activities. The coasts of many countries worldwide is highly reserved for recreational activities linked to tourism which is a source of revenue. Rather than even building this road, we need improvements on existing road infrastructure. We lack maintenance and improvement culture. 8 years can be used to do greater this to improve the quality of lives. That should be the priority.

Umahi is insulting our intelligence here. The beach is the business. Also he said he didn't want the road to pass through the South East because he didn't want to leave the coast. Now let me ask, the road from Lagos to Calabar will it run beside water for the entire length of the road?

He has to cut his loses, as soon as the project is completed , there are other businesses opportunities that will be available to him, ths project is for the good of all.

@@murrayedwards1805 Easy for you to say. Tell us when you borrow $100m, start a business, haven't finished paying off the loan, and then walk away for "other opportunities". You don't have a planning committee. Just a minister taking unilateral decisions and hurting people. Meanwhile there are other options. In many other climes the court case would drag forever and you'd have to settle the business owner in cash!

Till the end of the project, you can't know the benefit of the project. Even the landmark beach, is privately owned and you can't compare a privately owned to Federal government owned... Road for that matter... A case study was the BRT lane then when Fashola started the project in Lagos, many complained and kick against it then, what is the usage now, majority of Lagosians are enjoying the BRT now...

@@oluwatosinadedamola Elon Musk is richer than all African governments. Dangote is wealthier than many African governments. Only countries of the first 10 economies in the world can boast that they are better than privately owned projects and even that is up for debate. On the topic, Nigerian projects are for stealing money. This is a fact. That's why there is no maintenance culture. As for this project, I am almost certain that it won't be completed in 8 years.

Absolutely..no contest or doubts

You are not a God, okay

@@jimmysteeve7702 So your god put him there? Don't worry when your hunger enters gear two,then you will learn.

Politicians prefer to build roads over rail because they can give road contracts to their cronies. Jobbers like Dangote can't build rail, only foreigners like the Chinese. So we keep getting more stupid highways even though rail is obviously better.

Hi-tech is only handling a section not the entire project

My thots exactly. A lot of money is wasted on non essential projects that don't have much economic return. If only education and health can get this kind of investment.

I agree with you but that's the Minister of transports responsibility to think about and make it happen. The Minister of works is doing his own job and nobody stops the minister of transport to do same.

According to him the main contract is the building itself not the extension to the shore

In Nigeria, things are done with impunity which fits very well with the way tinubu operates. In saner climes, there would have been a year long open consultation, the budget would be fixed and known, there would have been open public tenders and the contractors would be known. If you have to use eminent domain, all those affected would have been properly consulted and compensated. This was not even the original plan for this road, it is based on Tinubu's whims of having a coastal road in Lagos that he has now extended to Calabar and just like in Lagos, he doesn't care who is in his way, he'll just remove them and move on. What is that you say? Those affected can go to court? Sure, Tinubu is already waiting for you there.

In reference to the land contract between Landmark and the government, it's important to note that the shoreline was not included as part of the agreement. Landmark took advantage of the situation and claimed ownership of the shoreline, which is not in accordance with the original contract. Therefore, the government is not obligated to compensate Landmark for the recovery of their property, which rightfully belongs to them.

Did he buy the ocean with the land ?

@@yetunde.y Nope. This isn't right. Every iota of the domain the business covers was paid for. The taxes generated and remitted are from the Beach Resort as well as the expansive entertainment area.

Fashola was just an overrated guy. He knows nothing about the works ministry

Oga this is channels TV not and I repeat NOT TVC.

This is channels not tvc

Except it's on Channels TV 😂😂

What wholesome? This is so unbelievable. To destroy all the beaches?😳

Are you high or what? This is channel 😊😊😊😊

If the road goes through Ahmadu Bello which is currently 2 lanes on both sdes, a lot of buildings like Silverbird and SCB towers would go down to make way for a 5 lane road. Either ways, someone would suffer.

Lol...... very soon, Peter will deny Jesus 3x

Don't forget he is igbo 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Kudos to him, really? For destroying the coastal line and all the beaches. Soon, Nigerians will need to travel abroad just to experience beaches. Unbelievable 😳

I tire

The coastline opens up the total coastline of Nigeria, not only Lagos! 95 % of Nigeria coastline isn’t accessible. With this road I can go to the coastline in Edo state or Delta or Rivers State. A foreigner can Land in Lagos and drive straight to a resort in Delta state or jump on a train.

@@tayolaborn7866 It's Very costly bro on multiple levels

@@tayolaborn7866so if the road runs along the ORIGINAL alignment of Water Corporation Road for a few kilometers, foreigners can no longer drive to Delta State?! 🤔 Btw, what resort in Delta State? Destroying an existing highly-successful resort in the hope that a resort of unknown quality might be built in the future - perhaps by investors who hopefully are somehow completely ignorant of what happened to Landmark, that a new minister can just ARBITRARILY ‘destroy’ their investment. Let’s not even ask what train you’re referring to, because we all know there won’t be a rail line built on that highway anytime in the foreseeable future, if ever. Or the reality that the reason that foreigners are not “landing in Lagos and driving straight to Delta State” is insecurity and NOT because of the absence of a coastal road. A nation already in rapid decline keeps shooting itself in the foot over and over again. SMH

​@@therealist2866You are right about destroying bussing not a good signal to investors, but in the first place coastal lines belongs to the FG and no private businesses should be situated there, landmark didn't own that shore line,he took advantage of it nit being used and extended his business to the beach side near the sea. But the minister said no demolition of any structure would take place on some part of the beach side will be affected which is bcos they reduced the raod wideness because of landmark.

Fake

It's just 8 years don't worry

CONSTRUCTION PHASE BENEFICIARIES ARE NIGERIAN COMPANIES: dangote, BUA, LAFARGE, STEEL COMPANIES, PLYWOOD DEALERS, SAND DEALERS, CHIPPIS DEALERS, LABOURERS, ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS, FOOD VENDORS ETC. COMPLETION PHASE:: NIGERIANS, TOURISTS, TOUR COMPANIES, TOUR GUIDES ETC

Concrete grade 40 is bridge standard. The road will last and last like bridges. The problem will be mining activities by people along the coastal region if it is not checked.

That is exactly my thought when you have an educated man not seeing the trees from the woods. We need better progressive thinkers to move Nigeria forward not just doing things that damage businesses.

If they shift it for him, should they shift it for others too? Do you know how many beaches that will be destroyed? Good beach, Elegushi…etc. should they shift for everyone? Beaches and all land belongs to the government, instead to make enquiries before buying, he went to buy from the Royal families and now he’s complaining.

@@samsonakala keep talking thrash, later you people will cry that there are no foreign investments coming into Nigeria.

One of the thing that killing our advancement in this part of the world is that, we are too sentimental. There is an existing law, and he kept a blind eyes to it. Meanwhile, I guessed from his analysis, there is alternative, there is alternative. Also, oniru and other beaches are affected too

Shouldn't this road be constructed into the hinterlands cos global warming is causing sea levels to rise causing the sea to encroach more into the land, this might wash out this 700km road in the future.

In that case Will the coastal road still be COASTAL?

Exactly! That was a very insensitive detached comment from him. He knows what he is doing, just doesn’t care about Landmark’s predicament.

Yeah, these people don't care. It's easy for him to speak this way.

The road is is more important than the beach

The project is basically aimed at stalling any future plans of building a deep seaport in South South. A deep seaport in the SS would be able to take goods inland. Building this road on the shore means there will be no future port any other areas on the shore. Only Lagos port, especially the Lekki deep sea port.

Imagine that

Any small thing, they play the ethnic card. Are you guys never tired of this silly victimhood? Have you not seen the videos of several ongoing projects in the Southeast? Is there any Southeast state bordering the coast? Una well so?

Na You wey no well. Who told you I’m concerned about the coastal road. No Federal Government project in the south east and that’s the fact. No train line at all. No Seaports or even plans for it. No government infrastructure. Tell me the infrastructure that is going on in the south east please. It’s easy for you guys to say nonsense because you are not in our shoes.

The thing taya me

Ethnic bigotry everything ethnic this ethnic that Let's stoppet

@@ebukachiemeka8666 You are sicck. The Minister mentioned Makurdi to Ninth Mile. There is the PH-Aba concrete road ongoing, and many more in the Southeast. There is the 20km alignment from Asaba and Onitsha ends to the 2nd Niger Bridge. You guys are sickkkk!

Why can't we be positive in our prayers towards our government?

@@trevoramusa5367 you are waiting for magic thinking it is prayers. By now, one should recognize an unlikely situation or outright lie and not be taken in by it. Another excuse has been given for why PH refinery hasn’t started refining. Many are continuing to pray, others are acting accordingly.

You are very correct bro

If Dave can pull this off, he will be the first president from Igbo extract in this dispensation. I pray for long life, good health for him.

​@@Omojoy4sure Hahaha... you won't vote for him when that time comes.

@@diligenceeke3023 waoh! Since you have supernatural powers to know the future and predict people's actions, maybe you should open a church or get a CEOs job at New York stock exchange

@@Omojoy4sure Everything for you people is religion. Church, mosque, etc. When will you all wake up? I'm certain of what I said. When the time comes to vote Umahi you won't vote him. You can try all the emotional blackmail you want, but I told you the truth. I'm sure you voted Buhari twice. And then voted Tinubu! Abeg shift jare! You all keep voting idiots to power and think your country will change.