 Back here in Lagos, the government says the proposed fourth mainland bridge will cost a open sum of $2.5 billion and will be completed within four years. Special advisor to the governor on the works, Arame de Adeoyee, announced these are the joint press briefing, organized by the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure and the Office of the Public-Private Partnership. Plus, the V Correspondents love Ikuko Yudoku reports that the preferred bidet for the project was also announced. The fourth mainland bridge is a proposed 38-kilometer-long bridge initiative by the Lagos State Government. It connects Lagos Island by way of leki, Langbasa, and Bayeku towns and across Lagos Lagoon to Itamaga in Ikorodu. Engineer Arame de Adeoyee is a special advisor to Sawun Luan Works and Infrastructure. It discloses that the fourth mainland bridge would remove gridlock on the Keta-Akko and third mainland bridge and open up the state for future developments. I recollect in 2019 when the governor said, this thing has been under drawing work for the last 20 years. It's not the first time that everybody is talking about what we're now doing. What exactly are we going to do that we're sure that we can actually get this project to start? And one of the things clearly was investor confidence, trust, transparency. So the two things for me, they're essential evidence for success. Investor confidence of trust and transparency. And so I'm happy today that, like I said, after 1,029 days, we cannot come here, still alive, and be getting to a good job on this. In the area of payment of compensation to owners of affected structures, Adeoyee said there is a framework for the payment, while assuring that all affected individuals will be adequately compensated. She urged legations to have confidence in the administration of Gov. Babaji de Sawun Lu to deliver on its developmental promises. There's a massive cost of construction, and there's a lot of people have asked, why is it that we are not? Well, now it looks like these MDIs are at work, but when the construction and the reforms, the LDIs begin to have trust and confidence in ourselves that even our HNIs are hiding from the employers and groups who begin to see the cost of completion as a way of improving the loss in the country. Akwa George is special advisor to Gov. Sawun Lu on public-private partnership. His father spoke on how the preferred bidder was arrived out. The construction of the 4th Mellan Bridge will commence in the first quarter of 2023. Love Ikuku Uyedukun. Plus TV News.