Drama on Arise TV as Umahi tells anchor ‘let me educate you’

A light drama ensued on Arise Television on Friday when Minister of Works, David Umahi, informed anchor Ojy Okpe ‘let me educate you’.

This occurred throughout an unique interview which centered on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway.

The presenter had requested the minister about complaints that the freeway was inflicting flooding in Lagos communities.

The minister, nevertheless, reduce in, insisting that many Nigerians discussing the undertaking don’t perceive the engineering behind it.

“Let me educate you, Ojy Okpe. The coastal freeway just isn’t flooded and can by no means get flooded,” Umahi mentioned.

The minister mentioned many homes alongside the hall have been constructed about 50 years in the past beneath flood stage when there was nothing like local weather change, explaining that the realm has the ocean on the proper and the lagoon on the left. He added that the highway was raised above flood stage to forestall water from coming into residential areas.

“The homes have been constructed beneath the flood stage. When we did our examine, we discovered that we would have liked to boost the coastal freeway above the flood stage and that’s what occurred,” he mentioned.

Umahi mentioned the highway has about 10 totally different evacuation channels and a number of culverts to take water to the lagoon, dismissing claims linking the freeway to flooding. According to him, flooding within the space began lengthy earlier than the undertaking.

“Before the development of the coastal freeway, was there flooding inside that space? The reply is sure. The coastal freeway has nothing to do with flooding,” he added.