2nd Niger Bridge Will Be Completed in 2022 – Julius Berger Assures
…As company deploys 1,300 workers and 425 equipment to site
BY GRACE ANYANWU, ABUJA – Engineering construction giant, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc handling the 2nd Niger Bridge project, on Tuesday assured the Federal Government that the entire project would be completed by February 2022.
The Julius Berger Project Manager for the works, Engr. Friedrich Wieser, gave the assurance last Tuesday when the pledged to the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola SAN, paid an inspection visit to the project site at the Anambra axis of the of the ongoing works on the Bridge and its ancillary roads.
Speaking on available resources and logistical efficiencies deployed for the timely and successful completion of the project, Engr. Wieser said Julius Berger has mobilised 1,300 workers and 425 equipment to site to effect project delivery as scheduled.
Wieser said, “The Bridge is being designed in line with applicable standard. We already have 1,300 workers working on this project and 425 equipment are on the project site.”
He told the Works and Housing Minister that work on the project has reached 33 per cent to completion.
According to him; “We’re currently doing sand filling of a 7km access road to the bridge and it will be completed by September this year. The entire project would be completed in February 2022. For now, we have no challenges”.
In his remarks, Fashola said the completion of the 2nd Niger Bridge project as scheduled was a top priority agenda to the President, Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
