The reconstruction of the expressway may not be completed until 2020 as there are alleged moves by the Federal Government to start a new concession.
The alarm was raised by a Lagos-based human rights organisation, Creative Chambers, while
reacting to a January 21 statement credited to the Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, on January 12, 2014.
The minister said that the Federal Government was mobilising about N300 billion from private investors in a public-private partnership (PPP) for the rehabilitation of the expressway and two other major roads in the country.
Creative Chambers, a member of the 1998 NGO coalition for the 50th anniversary of the Universal