Guild seeks extension of Lagos-Calabar coastal road to Badagry

.Says it’ll make higher development impacts

The Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG) has advised the Federal Government to extend the terminus of the 700-kilometers Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project to the border town of Badagry.

It said that the extension would make a higher developmental and economic impact than the Bar Beach in Lagos.
The group, which made the recommendation, at the weekend, after a study by members of the BCPG working around Badagry axis, said that the extension of the coastal highway to the coastline of Badagry would bring added economic value to the project.

The Guild, in a statement by the Coordinator of BCPG Badagry Cell, Olaniyi Olajire, and Secretary of BCPG Badagry Cell, Dipo Olayiwola, highlighted some of the advantages of taking the terminus of the coastal highway to Badagry to include linking directly the proposed Badagry Deep Sea Port with the Tin Can Port, Apapa Port and Lekki Deep Sea Port.

It added that by extending the highway to the international border of Badagry, it would encourage neighbouring countries to establish similar coastal highways to boost international commercial activities, increase patronage in the Lekki Free Trade zone, especially the Dangote Refinery and the airport and that the highway will promote physical development with concomitant amenities along the rural settlements by the coastline.

“Ramshackle buildings along the littoral region will be regenerated, as well as improving the quality of building production and embellishing the landscape with imposing buildings.

“The highway would serve as a protection for buildings that are under threat of ocean surgeas being experienced at Bonny (Military) Camp on Victoria Island and that physical development along Badagry coastline is sparse compared to that of Lekki coastline. Hence, compensation payment to affected property owners will be significantly reduced.”