The Federal Government says it is withholding payment of compensation to affected property owners from Kilometre Seven on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project, due to alteration on the plan.
The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, disclosed this when he inspected ongoing works on Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and other road projects on the Lekki Free Trade Zone, Dangote Tax Credit Route and Eleko, among others, on Saturday in Lagos.
Umahi explained that in a bid to resolve most of the compensation issues where a lot of critical infrastructure were affected, the government had reduced the entire corridor from Phase Two, Section Two of the coastal route, to effective pavements of 55km, including the 10 train tracks.
He said that the government had so far released about 10billion naira in compensations.
The minister assured that after review, payment of the compensation would continue, stating that many property would be saved.
