By Dayo Johnson Akure
The Secretary-General of Afenifere, Chief Sola Ebiseni, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to ensure the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway passes through the coastal communities of Ondo State, declaring that the current alignment distorts the project’s original vision.
Ebiseni, in an open letter to the President, said he was writing on behalf of the Ilaje-Yoruba people and other coastal communities in Ondo.
He argued that the state’s over 100-kilometre oil-producing coastline was unjustifiably bypassed despite the highway being conceived as a true coastal road.
According to him, the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is a historic national infrastructure project intended to connect Nigeria’s Atlantic coastline from Lagos to Calabar and should remain faithful to that objective.
