The Federal Road Maintenance Agency reports that it has started making plans to patch potholes and get involved in the repair of 50 deficient federal roads across the country.
The Punch reported that the director of information and communication, Maryam Sanusi, stated on Monday that the agency had developed plans to rehabilitate the roads and make them accessible all year round.
“Our goal is to work in at least 50 locations across the nation,” she said. We can make all of the routes accessible all year long by clearing them of potholes and other serious defects.”
Sanusi claimed that the main task at hand is to repair all of the catastrophic failures along the 36,000 km, the majority of which are washouts.
“We’ll eventually provide you with the result in kilometers since FERMA has a goal of maintaining 5,000 kilometers annually.”
Recall that President Bola Tinubu’s administration received 38 unfinished road projects totaling N979 billion from the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
The projects were found by analyzing the 2023 budget and comparing it to the national monitoring and assessment system, EYEMARK, which Buhari introduced in December of the previous year.
In Nasarawa State, the dualization of the Keffi-Akwanga-Lafia-Makurdi road and the expansion of the Abuja-Keffi dual carriageway were two crucial projects.
The Lafia bypass, the 9th mile (Enugu)-Otukpo-Makurdi Road in Enugu, and Benue State Phase II, which reportedly costs roughly N32.5 billion, were among the other significant projects that were still unfinished.
On the list were other projects like the complete development of Federal Capital Territory Highway 105 (Kuje Road) from the airport motorway to the outer Southern Motorway with Spur at Kyami District valued at N54.95bn and the rehabilitation of the Ikorodu-Shagamu Road, including the access road to Mosimi in Lagos State, at a cost of N100m.
