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FERMA Completes Abuja�Kaduna Road Repair
11.11.2004
Emergency repairs on the Abuja�Kaduna expressway, which started two weeks ago have been completed. The contractor, Messrs Borini Prono (Nig) Limited and the works ministry officials informed the media that works were on sections where new potholes and failures developed after the original damages for which they were retained were quantified. While expressing satisfaction with the repair, Dr Hakeem Baba Ahmed, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works, assured that the era when Nigerians cannot tangibly feel the impact of monies spent on repairing roads are over. Said he, �This road has gone beyond the condition where mere maintenance would do. What is required is complete rehabilitation and overlay. Government has granted approval for the rehabilitation of the worst portion, which is kilometre 60 on both sides from Kaduna. If what we are able to get next year is enough to do only 20 kilometres, we would judiciously spend it to ensure that a good job is done. What we can assure Nigerians is that from now on, there would never be a situation where the same reason for which public money is spent would crop up easily afterwards." While elaborating on the importance of the road and its current condition, FERMA Managing Director, Charles Unuigbe, said government has done the best thing possible in the present circumstances by providing the much-needed resources for regular maintenance of roads, adding that a sum of N15 billion was provided in the 2004 budget and the same amount pledged for 2005.
According to him, �if past governments had set aside even as little as N1 billion for road maintenance every year over the past 10 years, we would not have found ourselves in the messy situation we are now.� He stated further that approval has been given for 40 units of asphalt plants of 6 to 10 tones capacity per hour to be purchased along with about 11 other different types road maintenance equipment to be procured to enable FERMA build its in-house capacity for direct labour operations. He revealed further that sites have been identified on federal roads nationwide for building road maintenance camps at 50 kilometre intervals. These camps, he said, would serve as sites for storing equipment and materials for road maintenance activities.
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