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The recent move by the Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi, to present a 30-kilometre segment of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway as a completed and commission-worthy project has drawn sharp criticism from the Network for the Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development, NEFGAD, a leading public procurement advocacy group in Nigeria.


In a statement signed by its country head of office, Mr Akingunola Omoniyi, NEFGAD noted with deep concern that the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is a 750-kilometre unbroken contract meant to serve as a transformative infrastructure corridor across Nigeria’s coastal region.

According to NEFGAD, to commission just 30 kilometres—barely 4 per cent of the total project length—while the rest remains under construction is premature and misleading.


“We caution against the politicization of infrastructure delivery and stress that project commissioning should reflect substantive completion and usability of the project in its entirety or at least a major functional section.

“Presenting a fraction as the whole not only misrepresents the scope of work but risks undermining public trust in government communication and performance metrics.

“The minister must be mindful of the kind of precedent this action sets. If left unchecked, this could normalize the commissioning of uncompleted or partially completed projects across the country—turning what should be moments of national progress into mere photo opportunities and political theater,” parts of the statement read.


NEFGAD stressed that President Bola Tinubu should not be put under undue pressure of commissioning unfinished projects, maintaining that government is a continuum; hence, the minister, Umahi, should know that it is not possible for an istration to finish the business of government to the extent of thinking that all projects initiated must be completed during a tenure.

“President Tinubu himself met projects initiated by previous istrations, completed and inaugurated them,” the group observed.

NEFGAD called on the President to demand transparency and ability in project delivery.


“The people deserve full value for every public infrastructure initiative—not staged ceremonies that paper over incomplete work.

“We urge the Ministry of Works to recommit to credible milestones, uphold project integrity, and ensure that future commissionings are tied to real, completed achievements—not fragments dressed up as finished products,” the statement added.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/Lagos-Calabar-coastal-Highway-unfinished-unfit-for-commissioning-NEFGAD

Go to court

The government has always make it clear that any section that is completed will be opened and put to use. I don't understand the need for this article after the explanation by the FG

All this bad network talking nonsense, well they will have their own followers such as obidients


The federal government already said all the 23 sections of the construction completed Will be commissioned and put to public use immediately

Here we go again!

"I'm a politician. You know politicians lie, we go to many places during and after campaign tell so many lies pay our online minions peanut to defend us

for them to commission just 4% of a total project shows how wicked and confuse they are and for you always dancing, singing and clapping for them i will advice you MC Oluomo gangs of lagos

helinues:
Go to court

Nobody should be surprised anymore. We have seen it all under this istration.

Hehehe.

Their only achievement in 2 years and you don't want them to celebrate it,just da play.

That project will be used all through their tenure .

Every 2 year,30km

Road that was just getting started recently?

They should allow the work to keep going.

Haters of thr government will go any miles to bring about confusion

Lol everywhere good

When you want to know that both Tinubu and the people ing him are not normal, just imagine a president commissioning a bridge like 3rd mainland bridge when he has only completed 4% of the bridge

Network for the Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development, NEFGAD?

Just another useless, inconsequential attention-seeking group.

Okay

Food for the naysayers.....this is a project that cannot be abandoned.


All eyes on Asiwaju and his team

Ikaeniyan0:
The government has always make it clear that any section that is completed will be opened and put to use. I don't understand the need for this article after the explanation by the FG

You can't understand the need fror the article since you obviously don't understand the need to prioritise the fixing of existing bad roads instead of borrowing money to build a white elephant project to nowhere.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9whI_y1Ddg?si=OxjL7AxJALFl-zVc

Imagine Tinubu rushing to commission a project 4% completed. Tinubu is the S.I unit of failure governance and istration.

Sycophancy at its highest level. One day, a kilimeter road will be commissioned while the rest will wait till thy kingdom come.

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Please find your way to Bourdillon and the ebilokan queue for your own palliative crumbs in the absence of jobs and incomes that are reduced and wiped out by inflation.

anonimi:
The eyesore on Bourdillon Road
2nd January 2025

Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty.

If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance.

That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.

https://punchng.com/the-eyesore-on-bourdillon-road/

helinues:
Go to court

How did we get here?

I believe there's something diabolical about that aso rock, once a good man gets there, he or she turns bad. I didn't expect all these from Tinubu or buhari judging by their past records

Who be this? NEFGAD ko, na nefarious. For context of the ignorant, the Lagos Calabar coastal highway is arguably Nigeria's biggest infrastructure project ever. It is 6lanes highway with provision for railroad in future.
Lagos ibadan expressway is 127km.
Third Mainland bridge is 12km.
Niger bridge or Onitsha bridge is 1.5km.
2nd Niger bridge is 1.6km/12km. Your favorites avoided building it and used it as campaign promises for over a decade.
Your governors commission 1km roads and fly overs once in 4years. But you have a problem with commission of completed 30km. You hypocrites deserve hell.

Commissioning without completion is work-in-progress....

anonimi:


You can't understand the need fror the article since you obviously don't understand the need to prioritise the fixing of existing bad roads instead of borrowing money to build a white elephant project to nowhere.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9whI_y1Ddg?si=OxjL7AxJALFl-zVc

Can you show evidence Government is borrowing money to build the project?

This government has fully rehabilitated a lot of road around the 6 geopolitical regions and reconstructing a lot of road. People like you just love wailing because you do not like the president.

No government has fixed and constructed more roads than Tinubu. The FG made it clear a long time ago, any section of the road that's completed will be open to the public.

Haba the road is still under construction na. Nigerians stop these nonsense. These wee nonsense we did that made us to push God send Gej out that put us in the hands of apc(Buhari) that cripples our country.

This road is not even completed yet to even be talking of commissioning, pls stop all these nonsense heating up the roof all the time.

Welcome to Nigeria where commissioning has different meaning. They commission unfinish projects, and their urchins see it as achievement.

anonimi:


You can't understand the need fror the article since you obviously don't understand the need to prioritise the fixing of existing bad roads instead of borrowing money to build a white elephant project to nowhere.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9whI_y1Ddg?si=OxjL7AxJALFl-zVc

Are they not fixing existing roads??

Do U want them to finish the road in a day??

Of course it isn't ready for commissioning

Tinubu Regime, Where 30km of Asphalt Now Deserves a Standing Ovation

This government’s latest stunt, commissioning a 30-kilometre fraction of the 700km Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway as a “completed achievement”, is not just insulting, it’s pathologically unserious.

Let’s be blunt: This is not leadership. This is political masturbation masquerading as national progress.

250 million Nigerians have sacrificed:
• Fuel subsidies? Gone.
• Forex stability? Abandoned.
• Purchasing power? Shattered under 30% inflation.
And what do they get in return? A ribbon-cutting ceremony for 4% of a project.

This istration treats governance like a stage play, where optics matter more than outcomes. It is governance by illusion, rule by ribbon, and progress by press conference.

President Tinubu’s government is weaponizing mediocrity, manufacturing applause from dust. If every 30km stretch deserves a state gala, we might as well commission every pothole patched on the Third Mainland Bridge. Governance is not about photo-ops and premature press releases, it’s about delivery, impact, and honoring the social contract.

Instead, what we see is tone-deafness on steroids. They act as judge, jury, and executor of their own praise, despite glaring evidence of stalled progress, increased poverty, and public despair.

This is not governance. This is gaslighting.

Nigerians deserve ability, not accolades for incomplete work.
They deserve dignity, not deception.

And most of all, they deserve leaders who know the difference between a start line and a finish line.

The Chinese President won't do that because they like doing great things.