Federal Government Launches Nationwide Road Repair, Aims To Complete Work In Six Weeks

Eko Hot Blog reports that  The Federal Government, in collaboration with the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), has finalized its preparations to address the issue of potholes and undertake necessary repairs on failed sections of federal roads across the country.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), this was made known by the acting Managing Director, FERMA, Mr Godson Amos, during an interview on Sunday, July 9, 2023, in Abuja.

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Amos said the intervention became necessary due to the need to ameliorate the hardship and delays road users face daily on the highway.

Repairs are to be done within 6 weeks of commencement 

The FERMA boss expressed optimism that the intervention would be achieved within 6 weeks of the commencement and all potholes and road failure worked on, on federal roads across the country.

He said he had gotten reports across the country of the deplorable Federal Roads across the country which had caused a lot of inconveniences to road users, adding that this has hampered economic activities due to the inability of the people to freely move goods from one place to the other.

He said, ”The failures on the roads are mostly caused by the incessant rainfall being experienced in many parts of the country, which results in cutting off of roads embankment and collapsing of many carriageway sections at many locations across the country.

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“Also excessive traffic, overloading of vehicles coupled with the age of the roads are other factors that have contributed to the dilapidation of the federal roads.

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Speaking on how the agency would executive this intervention, Amos said direct labour would be deployed by engaging skilled and unskilled youths in the communities.

He further said that appraisals have been made, including the assessment of works requirement, and estimation of resources like men, materials and machines that will be deployed to achieve the most cost-effective result.

Amos said in order to ensure that maximum results were achieved the agency had designed a good monitoring mechanism for effective and efficient monitoring of all the projects nationwide deploying a management team for inspection.

He identified funding as a major challenge in the maintenance of the 36,000 kilometres of federal highways all year round.

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