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GREATER PORT HARCOURT AWARDS N30.9Bn FREEWAY CONTRACT 14th February, 2012

 

Dame Aleruchi Cookey-Gam exchanges the M10 Freeway contract documents with Gilbert Sassine, MD Lubrik Construction Co. Ltd.

As part of the implementation of the New City Master Plan, the Greater Port Harcourt City Development Authority (GPHCDA) has awarded a N30.9 billion contract for the construction of the first phase of a 40-kilometer M10 freeway, to link both the Port Harcourt International Airport and the Onne Seaport.
The Administrator, GPHCDA, Dame Aleruchi Cookey-Gam JP, who announced the award of the first 11 kilometres stretch of the project to Lubrik Construction Company (LCC), explained that that the road, when completed, would bring tremendous economic and social benefit to the State and nation at large.
According to Mrs Cookey-Gam, “the man-hour lost as a result of lack of direct access to Onne seaport and the International airport, was huge and impact negatively on the economic and social life of the State, hence the need to”.
She emphasized that the road which is a dual carriage way will have arterial edges leading to new development areas even as it provides access to commercial business districts in both the new and old cities, saying that the State Government considers the M10 road very critical to the development of the State.        
The first phase of the M10 freeway which is expected to be completed in 30 months begins at Professor Tam David West Road and stretches through 11kilometres with 5 bridge components, terminates at Ikwerre Road.
On phase 2 and 3 portions of the 40mk Road, the Administrator explained that phase 2 would commence at Ikwerre road where M10 phase 1 ends and continues for 16.6km to end at an access interchange at Aba Road while phase 3 continues for 15km to tie into the main road leading to Onne port.

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