FG Managing over 1,000 roads, bridges construction – Fashola

Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says the Federal Government is currently managing construction of over 1,000 roads and bridges across the country.

He stated this in Abuja at the inauguration of Dr Olufunmilade Akingbabohun as the 15th National Chairman of the Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Fashola, who was represented by the Minister of State for Works and Housing, Mu’azu Sambo, described the contracts as unprecedented, adding that the construction works were done despite limited income.

The minister said, “Currently, we are managing over 1,000 contracts of roads and bridges construction and rehabilitation covering over 13,000km.

“This is an unprecedented undertaking in our national history and it is being taken at a time where there was a recession and dwindling national income.

“Thankfully and happily, the fruits are becoming evident, travel time is getting shorter along several transport routes, projects are being completed as we enter what I call a season of completion and commissioning.”

Fashola said, “If it takes us three hours to travel 100km and another jurisdiction can do it in one hour, that jurisdiction will be more efficient, more productive and inevitably more prosperous than us.”