House of Reps to probe road projects executed in the last 12yrs

The House of Representatives on Thursday resolved to probe all the roads constructed by the Federal Government across the country from 2007 to date.

The House made the resolution after the adoption of a motion moved by Hon Dachung Musa Bagus under matters of urgent Public importance titled “Motion on the Daily death of Nigerians as result of bad roads in Nigeria” at the plenary Consequently, the House mandated the Committee on Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA,Chaired by Hon Richard Olufemi Bamisile to investigate all roads constructed by the Federal government from 2007 to date and report by the to House within few weeks for further legislative action.

The House equally urged the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Works and FERMA to include the construction and rehabilitation of the bad roads in the country in the priority list for the 2020 budget

According to Hon Bagus, “the challenges caused by poor nature of our roads in the country which are in a deplorable condition which make it difficult for road users and commuters to without recording avoidable loss of life and enormous damage to vehicles”

He noted that , most Federal Highways were constructed in the 1970’s and since then no major quality construction or rehabilitation has been carried out on these important links.

He further noted that these Federal Highways have been death traps, most of the routes that link further states to the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, are at the verge of being cut off from being part of the federating units of Nigeria.

He said he was “Concerned that if urgent measures are not taken to rehabilitate roads in order to improve the economic and commercial activities of the people in terms of infrastructural development, they will continue to wallop in abject poverty which can lead to the total collapse of the social infrastructure.

‘This can threaten the existence of some States as federating units of the federal Republic of Nigeria if severed from the road network to the Federal Capital Territory’.. While moving the motion, Hon Bagus raised the alarm that more Nigerians have been killed on the nation’s highways due to the deplorable conditions of the roads than the dreaded Book haram insurgency despite several billions of Naira spent on the roads over the years.

According to him,” only yesterday a bridge collapsed in Ekiti State and people died in the process, people die on the roads on a daily basis, all the roads are in a sorry state. “We as lawmakers, we must urgently address the issue because if we don’t do something now, we will not be able to the next level of greatness of our dream”

The motion was unanimously adopted when it was put to vote by Speaker, Hon Feni Gbajabiamila.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2019/10/house-of-reps-to-probe-road-projects-executed-in-the-last-12yrs/amp/

Seconded.

Obj didn't construct roads, hence his exclusion.

Though we are still waiting for the report of the panel set up to probe his $16b power project.

Wasting of time! the probe will not yield any result

Hehehe plenty minister go go jail.

PROBE ABILITY

Las las
Nothing go comot come.

Is it not Nigeria again

Nice one

Nah today?

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I wish there was a law that can dissolve house of reps. Those guys are just occupying space and wasting money

Should they convict anyone at the end of their probing, I should be sent to the evil forest. They are all birds of the same feathers. All of them are criminals, playing on the emotions of the innocent people

Na now day break

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Asking FERMA that uses bucket and head pan in road patching, to investigate such cases is fatal failure

useless sets of IDIOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

We are never going to move forward with all these 'white elephant' probes. We all know that those in question will not face any form of justice.

They should concentrate on passing laws that will 'genuinely' improve the wellbeing of the people.

especially the Calabar - Ikom own in Cross River State

Of all the problems in the country, this is the important to do abi? Na wa with the kind of people we elect into power

Xmas by dey corner so dey need Hampers anything to use and make money is allowed,Ali baba and the 360 thieves

For their cut they forgot to get

There was a country...... SMH

We going to take you people serious when you are ready to reduce all the yeye allowance and amend the yeye constitution too....


yeye dey smell

Why not include those under Obasanjo?
Oh wait, I remember Obasanjo never built a single federal road - fact .
There is a video of FFK who was Thief Obasanjo's govt spokesman at the time telling an interviewer to go out and look for the roads he claimed Obasanjo was building after the interviewer asked to list the roads.
You can't make these things up!

Before Buhari go finish him tenure prison go full.

If they probe only Nddc alone no space go dae

How the so called probe will yield result. And not end with bribe sharing

They should probe conclusively... Let no stone be left unturned, no crook spared.

Even the probe is a problem