The
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday said
Nigerian roads were not as bad as many people were claiming; rather, he stated
that the roads needed to be adequately maintained.
He,
however, noted that some of the roads had outlived their design life, some
still within their design life, while others were being built.
Fashola
stated these in his keynote address at the United Nations-sponsored capacity
building programme for the Federal Road Safety Corps, which was made available
to Punch correspondent in Abuja by his ministry.
He
said roads that had outlived their design life should have been replaced and
rebuilt, but they had not.
Fashola
stated that many citizens, some of whom had not used the roads, readily
describe Nigerian roads as a death trap.
He
said, “I undertook a tour of our roads earlier this year to see things for
myself. We went by road and travelled in two buses, driving for at least 12
hours every day. We left at 8am daily and drove until 8pm at the least. On one
occasion, we drove for 18 hours, from 8am to 2am the following day.
“We
drove through different sections of roads that had outlived their design life,
those that are within their design life with failures in some cases, and those
that are currently under construction.”
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