The lawmaker representing the Oredo federal constituency of Edo State in the House of Representatives, Patrick Obahiagbon, has threatened to lead his constituents and other Nigerians on a march to protest the deplorable state of the Lagos-Ore-Benin Road.

Mr. Obahiagbon told journalists at a press conference on Tuesday in Abuja that the road has collapsed by reason of neglect by the federal government and that, despite promises by its officials in the last two years, nothing has been done to rehabilitate the road.

An ultimatum

He gave government up to 2010 to rehabilitate the road, failing which he would mobilise for the march.

He said: "I have resolved, as the representative of the good people of Oredo federal Constituency in Edo State, who suffered a great deal on the collapsed Benin-Ore-Lagos road, to take up the gauntlet posed by the exigencies of the times to lead a crusade to compel the federal government to act expeditiously in fixing the road once and for all.

"I hereby, on this date and time, through this press conference, serve notice to the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and well meaning Nigerians of my resolve to lead a mass protest of my constituents and patriotic Nigerians who are daily macadamised by the macabre dance that has become the Benin-Ore-Lagos Road."

The lawmaker said the protest would make government know "that we are part of this country and that the federal government has gone to sleep on the Benin-Ore- Lagos road."

Poor budget implementation

Mr. Obahigbon stated that, as a result of the deplorable state of the road, incidences of robberies, accidents and elongated travel have become daily occurrences.

"Allison Madueke (former Transport minister) had on October 21st, 2008, when she appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Works, blamed government inability to execute new road projects and renovate existing ones across the country on the non-passage of the 2008 Budget Amendment Bill by the National Assembly. What happened after the passage of the budget?

"In May this year, for instance, the minister of works, Dr. Hassan Muhammad Lawal announced President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's approval of the release of N21 billion from the N140 billion budget for the ministry in the 2009 Appropriation Act for the rehabilitation of 34 roads nationwide," Mr. Obahiagbon said.


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He gave government up to 2010 to rehabilitate the road, failing which he would mobilise for the march.

He said: "I have resolved, as the representative of the good people of Oredo federal Constituency in Edo State, who suffered a great deal on the collapsed Benin-Ore-Lagos road, to take up the gauntlet posed by the exigencies of the times to lead a crusade to compel the federal government to act expeditiously in fixing the road once and for all.

"I hereby, on this date and time, through this press conference, serve notice to the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and well meaning Nigerians of my resolve to lead a mass protest of my constituents and patriotic Nigerians who are daily macadamised by the macabre dance that has become the Benin-Ore-Lagos Road."

Master of bombast at it again!!! 

Why is he making so much noise?

Ask themooooooooo

everyone is having their day of fame so now the whole place must scatter.

Yaradua needs to fire every single member of his PR team for real.

Typical Nigerians- no idea how to handle a crisis or whatever it is that's going on right now.

lols, i doubt if those hausa men understand a bit of his statments.
sometimes has i think he has turned to basketmouth at the lower house

Where's he protesting to, !

Haha!This man invents vocabs.Hope he will be the next Edo governor.

FIRE!

all these non entities

Does he intend repairing the road with all this VOCABS?
We have seen Ministers shed crocrodile tears on the same road, vowing to take action, what came out of it.

This people prefer taking flight to Benin, they have no inkling to what the poor masses go through daily on that road.

Obahiagbon should let us be, we have resigned our fate to God.

Dude doesnt even pass through the road, What a sham