The Federal Government, on Sunday, inaugurated the N40 billion Closed-Circuit Television Camera (CCTV) Centre of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the CCTV centre was built by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC).
Inaugurating the centre, the Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, said that the current administration met a ‘very terrible Third Mainland Bridge’.
”When we came on board in 2023, we met a very terrible Third Mainland Bridge, Carter Bridge and Iddo Bridge, both on the pavement, surface, infrastructure above the water and even infrastructure below the water.
”The president, therefore, directed total re-evaluation and rehabilitation of the surfaces of the Third mainland Bridge and changing the expansion joints.
”Lagosians were very happy with the President for that beautiful work, and that work completed and commissioned is still succeeding because of the quality,” he said.
He thanked the CCECC for a job well done.
He said the ministry would be handing over a boat and two Hilux vans, which were part of the contract, to the police for monitoring of the bridge.
“If they need to incorporate other security agencies, they can do that, but the idea of this project is that we have a lay-by on the bridge, so we view everything going on on this bridge.”
Umahi expressed worry at speeding by motorists on the bridge, urging adherence to traffic rules and regulations.
Earlier, the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mr Olufemi Dare, said that the centre was the first of its kind in Nigeria.
”I doubt if there is any bridge in Nigeria that has what we have deployed here today, where you have CCTV to monitor both the underwater and even the bridge itself.
“We have a boat that has been bought for surveillance of the bridge. There are two Hilux vans, too.
“We have 240 solar panels in this environment, and that is not enough. The whole place is fully air-conditioned. We have 10 inverters inside the building.
”We have the powering units. We have a transformer, a 300KVA transformer. We have a standby generator”.
