Stakeholders, community leaders, Nigerians in Diaspora, and landowners have called on President Bola Tinubu to probe the circumstances surrounding the diversion of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway at chainages 17 and 18.

However, Nigerians in Diaspora, condemned what they described as abuse of the right of their representative in Nigeria who is Managing Director of Winhomes Global Services Limited, Stella Okengwu, by the Minister of Works, David Umahi, during a stakeholders’ meeting held in Abuja.

The Diasporans, who are subscribers to Winhomes Global Services, also claimed that their dream of investing in Nigeria is about to be shattered.

They, therefore, appealed to Tinubu, not only to order the minister to revert to the already gazetted 2006 alignment but should also order thorough investigation into the planned diversion.

Okengwu, who led the call in Victoria Island, Lagos, also asked Umahi to retract his statement where he referred to her as his South-East sister involved in land-grabbing.

Also speaking, an engineer, Femi Adekoya, said that Umahi had undermined and negated the importance of the environmental impact and social assessment of the diverted alignment of the Okun-Ajah axis away from the original gazetted alignment of 2006.

Adekoya, an engineer said: “In view of the technical aspect of the EIA and ESIA, the engineering aspect of the EIA was not properly conducted, thereby resulting to inadequate environmental impact assessment.”

Also, a Canadian-based Nigerian doctor, Arinze Onwumelu, called on Tinubu to call the minister to order so as not to discourage millions of Nigerians in Diaspora who are planning invest in Nigeria, saying: “We in the Diaspora want to invest but we don’t trust the Nigerian system.”