The federal government has called for support from residents, traditional rulers, and other stakeholders towards the ECOWAS Abidjan-Lagos corridor highway project.
Project Director, Communication and Visibility Study for the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway Development Project, David Nwedu, made the call during a stakeholders’ town hall meeting in Agbara, elaborating on the highway’s economic and strategic significance.
He stated that the project supported 75 per cent of ECOWAS’s economic activity across Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, and Côte d’Ivoire.
Nwedu described the project as a transformative initiative to address a crucial economic route, noting that the Lagos State government is considering adding a rail line in the middle to improve connectivity.
According to Nwedu, one of the key goals of the project was to create a borderless travel experience across the corridor by 2045, allowing seamless movement of goods and people.
Also speaking, the Federal Controller of Works for Lagos State, Olukorede Kesha, emphasised the need for communities’ cooperation, awareness, and adherence to the designated Right of Way (RoW).
She said that the purpose of the meeting was to inform residents about the upcoming project, noting that some attendees had never participated in such discussions before.
The Abidjan-Lagos Corridor forms the first phase of the Dakar-Lagos Trans-West African Coastal Corridor (Trans-Africa Highway Number 7), which is planned to link West Africa to Central and Eastern Africa (Dakar-Lagos-Yaounde-Bangui-Kampala-Nairobi to Mombassa.
