Senior Advocate of Nigeria Abiodun Olatunji has cautioned the federal government against recent pronouncements and actions concerning the Benin-Asaba Expressway and ongoing intervention activities on the highway. He advised the government to tread cautiously regarding any revocation of the subsisting concession agreement governing the expressway, noting that the absence of evidence of abandonment, repudiation or unreasonable delay in repair works may not constitute sufficient grounds for unilateral revocation of the 25-year concession. Olatunji provided his legal opinion on issues surrounding the concession, including the dispute between the Federal Ministry of Works and the Benin-Asaba Expressway Concession Company Limited. The federal government had ordered immediate intervention and re-concessioning.
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