Coastal communities fault diversion of Lagos-Calabar road

Warri Reclamation Thrust and the Itsekiri National Youths Council, INYC, have faulted the decision to divert the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road project away from the coastline after Lagos and Ogun states.

Convener of Warri Reclamation Thrust and former National Executive of INYC, Tsaye Mene, said the decision was an insult to the Itsekiri, Ilaje and Ijaw people, whose oil-rich coastal communities in Ondo, Delta and Bayelsa provide most of the resources used to fund the project.

Mene said: “It is shocking and insulting that the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road, which was originally designed to follow the coastline through Ondo, Delta and Bayelsa’s oil-rich coastal communities, will now detou...