FASHOLA ASSURES TEMPORARY REPAIR OF COLLAPSED MOKWA-JEBBA BRIDGE
By: Admin
The
Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has on Sunday assured that the
temporary repair measures being taken on the collapsed Mowo junction bridge
along Mokwa-Jebba road in Niger State will be soon completed.
He, blamed the collapse of the bridge on the forces of nature and
climate change.
“These are some of the hazards that come with weather changes. All over the world we see them, mudslides, hurricanes, volcanos, windstorms, damaging public infrastructure, so Nigeria is not exempted.“It will cause some discomfort for which we apologise to commuters, but it is an emergency and we are treating it as such,” he said.
The
Minister explained that a team of engineers from the Ministry and other
relevant agencies has been deployed to implement alternative measures around
the collapsed bridge for motorists to start using the road within the next 72
hours.
He
says the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has also been mandated to manage the
traffic on the Federal highway and divert traffic, especially heavy-duty trucks
carrying fuel and food items from the north to the southern part of the country
through the road.
The
Mokwa-Jebba bridge once collapsed last year and was repaired promptly by the
Federal Government.
However,
the FRSC on Sunday morning alerted motorists over the collapse of the bridge
after Mowo Junction due to heavy rainfall.
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