Governor Peter Obi's cry to the Senate Committee on Works about the importance of the second Niger Bridge pales beside the imminent collapse of the existing bridge, which is a patch up of the 43-year-old bridge blown up during the civil war after Biafran troops marched on Ore.
Last July, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, a permanent secretary in the Office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation, and a former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Works, told the same Senate Committee on Works that the Niger Bridge could collapse soon.
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