FERMA moves to fix 36,000km failed federal roads in six weeks

FERMA moves to fix 36,000km failed federal roads in six weeks

The Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) says it will fix all federal roads stretching about 36,000 kilometres across the country currently in a bad state.
It said the task would be achieved within six weeks, lamenting that the rain was contributing to deteriorating condition of the roads.
Acting Managing Director, FERMA, Mr Godson Amos made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja.
He said the intervention was necessitated because of the need to ameliorate the hardship and delays road users face daily.
He said he had received reports across the country of the deplorable federal roads across the country which had caused a lot of inconveniences to road users.
He added that these failures had hampered economic activities due to inability of the people to freely move goods from one place to the other.
”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.
“Also 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 damage to vehicles, waste of productive man-hours and huge discomfort to road users.
“Our engineers in the field offices have already carried out route condition survey of the federal roads and identified all critical failures like road embankments washout and failed carriageway section for the agency to take action.”