Engineer’s representative for the Second Niger Bridge, Seyi Martins, has condemned the removal of road fittings from the Bridge by vandals.
He also attributed low traffic on the bridge to security challenges facing the region, stressing that the experts’ mandate is to construct the bridge to decongest traffic.
Speaking with journalists on Wednesday in Onitsha, Martins however assured that the Federal government would beef up security around the bridge, to protect it from further vandalism.
He said: “It is true that the bridge was vandalised, Those fittings will surely be replaced. It is an important national asset that should be protected by all.
“We have contacted all the security agencies and we will beef up security around the bridge and on the bridge.
“People have cried for this bridge for decades now they have the second Niger bridge. Just a month after it was inaugurated, they vandalised it, I think something is wrong somewhere.
“This bridge will be beneficial to everybody, the vandalism on the bridge is unacceptable, it is not in the interest of the larger community as the profit from the vandalisation is just for a flitting moment.
“The effect of the destruction will be for a very long time because, at the end of the day, they will also suffer the consequences. So it is better not to vandalise public property. It belongs to you and me.
“Government has done their part by providing infrastructure, it is left for us to guide it jealously because it belongs to everybody.”