The Minister of Works, David Umahi, said on Monday Federal Government saved about N300 billion from the new design of the Onitsha axis of the second Niger Bridge.
The minister, according to a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Orji Orji, stated this in Asaba, Delta when he led the ministry’s management on an inspection tour of the bypass to the bridge down to Onitsha.
He said: “We saw that the design was defective and we agreed on a new kind of design.