ECOWAS and road infrastructure ministers from Benin, Cote d’ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, and Togo meet to expedite the 6-lane dual carriage Abidjan to Lagos corridor highway
13 December 2023, Cotonou -The Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway Development Project’s Implementing Agency, the ECOWAS Commission, will host its twentieth (20th) Project Ministerial Steering Committee Meeting in Cotonou, Republic of Benin on December 15, 2023. The purpose of this meeting is to evaluate the project’s progress to date, make important decisions, and expedite the implementation process.
Engineer David Nweze Umahi, the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s Minister of Works and Housing and Chairperson of the Ministerial Steering Committee, will preside over the meeting, which will be hosted by the Honorable Minister of Infrastructure and Transport of the Republic of Benin.
The immediate predecessor, Hon. Babatunde Raji Fashola, was replaced as Nigeria’s new Honorable Minister for Works and Housing by Engr. David Nweze Umahi. The meeting will also be attended by the Coordinating Ministers of Ghana, Togo, and Cote d’Ivoire, who represent their respective countries’ road infrastructures.
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Before the steering committee meeting on December 15, 2023, December 13 and 14, 2023, have been set aside for a comprehensive technical meeting of the members of the Experts Committee of the Abidjan Lagos Corridor Highway Development Project. This committee is composed of engineers and experts from the five member countries’ ministries and agencies responsible for roads and infrastructure, the ECOWAS Project Implementation Unit (PIU), funding partners such as the European Union and the African Development Bank (AfDB), and other funding partners.
During the two days of the expert meeting, the project’s progress since the 19th Experts and Steering Committee meeting in May 2023 in Accra, Ghana, will be reviewed, and steps to expedite the project’s completion of the project study phase and transition to the Highway’s construction will be outlined.
