The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Federal Road Maintenance Agency, Femi Bamisile, on Saturday mentioned the poor state of federal roads was inflicting Nigerians to spend pointless time o motion along with accidents and put on and tear on automobiles.
Bamisile mentioned, “On Friday, I saw about 1,000 trucks along Ado Ekiti-Akure Road stranded because of bad road.”
The National Assembly member, who spoke at Aramoko Ekiti, Ekiti West Local Government space of Ekiti State, whereas addressing some indignant travellers who bought stranded alongside Igede-Aramoko-Efon Road, added that the N30bn allotted to FERMA out of the N460bn budgeted for development and upkeep of federal roads in 2021 was insufficient.
The lawmaker, who additionally visited Ado-Ilawe-Igbara-Oke, and Ado-Ikere-Akure a, the place commuters had been additionally stranded as a result of defective vans and poor roads, referred to as on the Ekiti State Traffic Management Agency take away the defective automobiles.
Bamisile mentioned, “I’ve moved spherical Ekiti and what I noticed are disturbing.
This state of affairs is unlucky and now we have to seek out options to it. We learnt {that a} bridge bought reduce off at Jebba and these heavy vans from the North and South now discover Ekiti as essentially the most handy place to ply and that has additional brought on critical harm to each federal and state roads.
“The Federal Ministry of Works bought N46bn within the 2021 finances and N30bn billion was given to FERMA; that is too small for a physique saddled with upkeep and rehabilitation of roads throughout Nigeria. Nigerians can’t be handled this manner.
“On my return to Abuja, I’ll take this matter up; we’re experiencing dangerous roads and that is due to poor funding and this should change as a result of Nigerians are actually struggling.
“The best and most modern method of construction now is concrete tarring, which government must adopt.”
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