Fashola Dares FG Over Link Bridge, Ferry Service

Babatunde
Fashola has said his administration will go
ahead with the construction of the Lekki
link bridge without waiting for Federal
Government approval.
Also, he said he will not seek for any
approval before embarking on the state
ferry service.
Governor Fashola spoke in Lagos,
yesterday, during the 13th National Council
on Transportation, with the theme
'Transformation of Transport Infrastructure
as a Catalyst for Socio economic Growth.'
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state
According to Fashola, it was absurd for an
agency like the National Inland Waterways
Authority, NIWA, to require his
administration to apply for a permit to build
the Lekki link bridge over the Lagos lagoon
or to develop municipal water
transportation facilities, which would be
beneficial to Lagosians.
He said: "I believe that each state has the
capacity to operate and manage its
municipal water transport, inside the
territory of the state.
"I find it difficult a situation, where NIWA
asks me to come and take up a permit
before I set up a jetty on my own lagoon
we will not stand for it. I also find it
objectionable, where NIWA suggests to me
that before we can build the Lekki link
bridge, over a lagoon inside Lagos, I should
come and take a permit to build a bridge
for the citizens of Lagos we will not apply
for it.
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