The Home of Representatives on Wednesday, urged the Federal Authorities to make provision within the 2025 price range for the development of the highway resulting in the Bellview air crash web site, to allow households to pay respect to their family members who misplaced their lives within the air catastrophe.
The decision adopted the adoption of a movement of pressing public significance moved by the member representing Ifo/Ewekoro Federal Constituency, Ogun State, Mr Ibrahim Ayokunle.
Titled, “Have to rehabilitate the highway and bridges resulting in the location of the ill-fated Bellview Boeing 737- 200 Airline Flight 210 from Lagos to Abuja,” the movement introduced again unhappy reminiscences among the many lawmakers gathered within the Inexperienced Chamber at Wednesday’s plenary.
Recall that on October 22, 2005, the Bellview Airways Flight 210, a scheduled Nigerian home passenger flight Boeing 737-200 airliner from Lagos to Abuja nose-dived and crashed at excessive velocity a couple of minutes after take-off, killing all 117 passengers on board.
Addressing his colleagues, Ayokunle famous that members of the family of the deceased couldn’t pay their respects as a result of dilapidated highway and collapsed bridges at Awela and Alapako Rivers, resulting in the crash web site.
He said, “The households of the deceased passengers are unable to pay their regular laying of wreath and prayers, due to the badly affected highway and the collapsed bridges affected by flood and erosion at each Awela and Alapako Rivers.”
Following the unanimous adoption of the movement, the Home mandated “The Committees on Ecological Funds, Appropriations and Aviation to make provision in 2025 price range estimate to deal with the infrastructure challenges to make sure secure web site entry for households of the deceased.”
It additionally mandated the Ecological Challenge Workplace by the Workplace of the Secretary to the Authorities of the Federation to embark on “Fast highway growth, dredging/channelisation and development of bridges throughout Awela and Alapako Bridges to permit households to go to the location and pay their respects.”