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The Federal Government will evolve and implement an emergency plan to fix federal roads in dire state in the south east and other parts of the country says the Minister of Works, Mr Mike Onolememen while answering questions at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum in Abuja on Wednesday.
Onolememen, who acknowledged that some of the arterial roads in the south east were in bad condition, said that the government had done so much on roads in the region, noting that it had not abandoned roads in the region.
Onolememen dismissed insinuations that the Federal Government had not done much in fixing most of its roads in bad condition in the south east region.
He said that though the budgetary constraints had limited the ministry’s intervention in some areas, government had in the past few years tried to recover bad portions of the arterial roads.
“It is not true that all the federal government roads in the south east are in bad shape.
“It is in the same south east where you have the Obiozora-Iziagu road that is one of our best roads which is comparable to anywhere in the world.
“We have pockets of them here and there, the Enugu-Abakaliki road is part of the roads in the south east, these are very good alignments.
“Yes we have some challenges, for us to be able to drive these roads to the level Nigerians want; we need to be investing about N500 billion in road development in the ministry of works every year in the next four years,’’ he said.
The Minister added that the Obajana-Kabba road which had been in terrible state in the past 15 years and other critical roads across the country would receive priority attention before the expiration of the present administration.
The minister urged Nigerians to appreciate the work done by the Goodluck Jonathan administration in the area of road rehabilitation and construction after many years of neglect in the sector.
Onolememen, who acknowledged that some of the arterial roads in the south east were in bad condition, said that the government had done so much on roads in the region, noting that it had not abandoned roads in the region.
Onolememen dismissed insinuations that the Federal Government had not done much in fixing most of its roads in bad condition in the south east region.
He said that though the budgetary constraints had limited the ministry’s intervention in some areas, government had in the past few years tried to recover bad portions of the arterial roads.
“It is not true that all the federal government roads in the south east are in bad shape.
“It is in the same south east where you have the Obiozora-Iziagu road that is one of our best roads which is comparable to anywhere in the world.
“We have pockets of them here and there, the Enugu-Abakaliki road is part of the roads in the south east, these are very good alignments.
“Yes we have some challenges, for us to be able to drive these roads to the level Nigerians want; we need to be investing about N500 billion in road development in the ministry of works every year in the next four years,’’ he said.
The Minister added that the Obajana-Kabba road which had been in terrible state in the past 15 years and other critical roads across the country would receive priority attention before the expiration of the present administration.
The minister urged Nigerians to appreciate the work done by the Goodluck Jonathan administration in the area of road rehabilitation and construction after many years of neglect in the sector.
