The Senate has mandated its committees on Works, Finance and National Planning and Economic Development to investigate the abandonment of the Badagry-Sokoto Expressway, 40 years after the project was initiated.
It asked the committees to jointly inter-face with the Ministry of Works, the Federal Road Maintenance Agency and other relevant stakeholders to determine why the highway had been abandoned for such a long time, provide a permanent and sustainable solution.
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It also urged the Federal Government to initiate Build, Operate and Transfer or Public Private Partnership process to fund the construction of the road.
This followed a motion on the floor of the Senate yesterday by Senator Sadiq Suleiman Umar (Kwara North) and seven others.
The road connects 12 states; Lagos/Badagry, Ogun/Agbara, Oyo/Abeokuta, Kwara, Niger, Kebbi and Sokoto States at the national level, with Benin, Togo and Niger at the International level.
It is also the Nigerian section of the Trans-West Coastal Highway project to link 12 West African coastal nations.
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