The acting Managing Director of the Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA, Godson Amos has disclosed that the agency will embark on road repair and rehabilitation nationwide.
The agency boss said paucity of funds has been the major challenge militating against its efforts to regularly maintain over 36,000 kilometers network of roads belonging to the federal government across the country, he said during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN.
Repair of dilapidated roads, the agency said will now commence soon following a survey carried out nationwide, adding that bad roads are causing a lot of discomfort for road users.
He said recent rainfall has destroyed many roads nationwide, noting that the development has hampered the economic activities of Nigerians who find it hard to move around freely.
According to Amos, who spoke in Abuja on Sunday, “excessive traffic, over loading of vehicles coupled with age of the roads are other factors that have contributed to the dilapidation of the federal roads.
“This hinders the free flow of traffic, causing colossal damages to vehicles, wastages of productive man hours and huge discomfort to road users.
“Our of engineers in the Field Offices have already carried out route condition survey of the Federal Roads and heave identified all critical failures like road embankments washout and failed carriageway section for the agency to take action.”
