The minister of environment, Mrs Lawrencia Mallam has described as false media reports quoting her to have said the federal government kicked off work on the construction of the 2nd Niger Bridge without consideration for the Environmental Impact Assessment Law (EIA) and that the ministry has consequently stopped work on the project.
The Minister in a statement signed by the ministry’s deputy director, press, Mr Ben Goong, said there was no record in the Ministries of Environment or Works or the consortium handling the project indicating that the minister of environment has suspended work on the 2nd Niger Bridge.
The statement read: “ At the press conference which held on Friday the 25th of April, 2014 at the instance of the courtesy visit of the Turkish Construction Forum on the minister, His Excellency, the Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria told the minister that his country is interested in seeing that Turkish Construction Companies operating in Nigeria comply fully with the environmental laws of Nigeria.”
“In response to that statement, the minister of environment, Mrs Laurentia Mallam told the visiting delegation that the Nigerian government has placed a high premium on environmental issues, and that is why government itself has to follow due process by obtaining an interim certificate of Environmental Impact Assessment on the 2nd Niger Bridge”.
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