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Declare Emergency On Federal Roads, Senate Urges Buhari

AdminBy AdminOctober 13, 2021Updated:October 13, 2021No Comments2 Mins Read
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The Senate, on Tuesday, called on the Federal Government to immediately declare a state of emergency on federal roads and improve its funding.

The red chamber also urged the Federal Ministry of Finance to, as a matter of urgency, release adequate funds to the Federal Road Maintenance Agency for the purpose of carrying out emergency repairs on all federal roads in the country.

The resolutions were reached by the chamber following a motion sponsored by Senator Gershom Bassey, titled ‘Motion on Nigeria’s bad roads And NUPENG’s impending nationwide strike’.

Coming under Order 42 and 52 of the Senate Standing Orders, Bassey described the 36,000-kilometres federal road network as the largest and most valuable single public infrastructure asset owned by the Nigerian government.

“The deplorable state of the federal roads in Nigeria have become a national shame and an unnecessary embarrassment as scores of innocent people are kidnapped by bandits, robbed, mutilated and killed daily in avoidable accidents on account of bad federal roads,” the lawmaker said.

He lamented that the Petroleum Tanker Drivers branch of the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers had threatened to cripple the Nigerian economy by a nationwide strike if the bad and shameful roads are not rehabilitated.

The lawmaker recalled that in 2019, he made a similar call through a motion for increased funding for maintenance and rehabilitation of the country’s federal highways.

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