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We Are Going Ahead With Fourth Mainland Bridge – Sanwo-Olu
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Wednesday said his administration is determined to build the Fourth Mainland Bridge.
He also highlighted key components of his administration aimed at delivering his Greater Lagos vision.
Sanwo-Olu revealed his administration’s strides while answering questions as a guest on Channels television’s flagship programme, Sunrise Daily on Wednesday.
He said the construction of the 4th mainland bridge, would make use of private equity to achieve the project.
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“Two weeks ago, we advertised the 4th mainland bridge project locally and internationally. Our total budget for next year is about $3 billion and that’s the highest in the country. The 4th mainland bridge, from the design we have seen that it is a 37 kilometres road. We cannot handle it alone so we are going to use private equity. We have advertised. We have the alignment, we have the right of way and all of the biometric study. Let everyone worldwide come and play a role,” he said.
While recounting the successes his administration has recorded in the last 196 days, the Governor said a lot of achievements have been recorded in the area of security of lives and properties of the residents. The governor revealed that he stays up to very late hours of morning tracking and monitoring security incidents in the State.
The Governor said: “At a period like this – going to the end of the year, criminal activities are usually on the increase because people usually want to do things to make quick money. We are working on salvaging the situation. We have a new Commissioner of Police who has hit the ground running from the first day he came in.
“You heard of the unfortunate incidence of an expatriate that was stabbed to death by domestic staff. I was up till 2am last Friday because we were tracking the suspects. The Commissioner of Police led the team and we were able to apprehend the two suspects.
“Policing and security come in two ways. It comes with intelligence. What kind of information do you have prior to or after? You really don’t know who has a criminal tendency by mere looking at their faces. It has to be that we have more men out there on the streets and we must have ability to be able to respond when there is a distress call.
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