Rehabilitation of Failed Federal Roads to Begin Next Month
The rehabilitation of failed federal roads is to begin next month.
Works Minister, Dave Umahi, announced this in a post on his X (formally Twitter) handle on Monday.
He said the roads to be rehabilitated were based on the complaints from commuters and residents.
Roads earmarked for palliative, included Makurdi-Nsukka 9th Mile Road, East-West Road, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, and Benin Bypass Road.
Others are the collapsed bridges of Enugu- Port Harcourt Road, collapsed bridges of Shandam-Plateau State, Abuja-Kaduna- Zaria-Kano Road, and Gombe- Bauchi among others.
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He promised to tackle road infrastructure issues head-on, not minding the heavy volume of debt burden inherited from most of the ongoing road projects.
The attention of the Federal Ministry of Works has been drawn to the concerns of the public on the deplorable situations of some sections of the Federal roads throughout the Federation as reported in many media platforms, especially social media and newspaper pages.
He explained that N300bn funding in the 2023 supplementary budget dividend into N100bn immediate palliative works on all roads in the 36 States and the federal capital territory and N200bn for completion of most inherited ongoing projects would provide succour for Nigerians.
Without prejudice to all the good efforts of the past administration on road infrastructure development which they tackled within the limit of their resources, the work to be done to change the ugly state of our roads is quite enormous.
Mr. President is not complaining of the challenges he inherited in nearly all sectors of the economy, especially as it concerns our road infrastructure and he has directed that works in those palliative projects must commence before 1st December 2023, while observing all due process.
On the sections being frequently complained of by the public in all regions of the North and South of the country, Mr. President has equally isolated them and directed immediate actions on them, and indeed work has started on all such roads. The public can crosscheck our claims and report back to us, Umahi added.
The minister also requested the general public to assist the ministry by supervising contractors that will be engaged in palliative works of road infrastructure adding that genuine informants would be periodically recognized publicly in a public engagement forum.
