Lekki-Ikoyi bridge: FG got N10m, Lagos tells court

There is a new twist to the controversy surrounding the construction of the Lekki-Ikoyi Suspension Bridge as the Lagos State Government has told a Federal High Court in Lagos that it paid N10m to the Federal Government to get the FG approval.
The state government stated this in a counter-affidavit dated November 13, 2013, in response to an earlier denial by the National Inland Waterways Authority that its permission had not been obtained before the bridge was constructed.
The Federal Government had through the Attorney-General of the Federation and the NIWA, said its permission was not obtained for the construction of the bridge.
Both NIWA and the AGF had saidwith the construction of the bridge, the state government had encroached into the Lekki-Ikoyi Lagoon, which it claimed was under NIWA's exclusive authority……..
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