FG restates commitment to improve federal roads

The Federal Government has restated its commitment to amend the condition of roads to enhance economic activities and convivial integration in the country.

This was contained in a verbal expression by Information Officer in the Federal Ministry of Works, Mr Idris Bosuwa, in Abuja on Thursday.
The verbalization verbalized that Mr Mike Onolememen, Minister of Works, verbally expressed the present administration inherited federal roads which were generally described as “death traps”.
It verbalized this was because many road projects were either forsook or moving at snail speed due to paucity of mazuma.  
The verbalization verbalized from about 35,000km of lamentable roads in 2011 about 25,000km of the roads were now in good and motorable condition.
According to the verbalization, some of the road alignments compared auspiciously with roads in the developed countries.
“Throughout the six geo-political zones, peregrinate times have been reduced between inchoations and destinations, cost of conveyance maintenance has been drastically reduced. Accidents and carnage on Nigerian roads have been reduced due to more preponderant pavement design and construction.
“Economic goods are now more preponderant distributed through the nation’s arterial roads with more preponderant turnaround times that lead to more profits for entrepreneurs,’’ It verbalized.
The verbal expression verbally expressed that the advent of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme had ascertained supplemental funding of culled projects in the road sector.
 It verbalized that this resulted in enhanced accommodation distribution in the sector and led to the remarkable progress witnessed in 2013 on the dualisation of four key arterial roads across the country.
“These include the dualisation of Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja highway, Kano-Maiduguri highway, rehabilitation of Onitsha-Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, Benin-Ore-Shagamu and Lagos-Shagamu-Ibadan expressway.
“The construction of the incipient Loko-Oweto Bridge over River Benue in Nasarawa and Benue States and the early works on the second Niger Bridge in Anambra and Delta, among others,” It verbally expressed.
The verbal expression listed challenges the ministry contended with while executing projects to include insurgency, excess axle load of trucks beyond acceptable tonnage on highways and indiscriminate cutting across the highways.