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The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday said Nigerian roads were not as bad as many people were claiming; rather, he stated that the roads needed to be adequately maintained.

He, however, noted that some of the roads had outlived their design life, some still within their design life, while others were being built.

Fashola stated these in his keynote address at the United Nations-sponsored capacity building programme for the Federal Road Safety Corps, which was made available to our correspondent in Abuja by his ministry.

He said roads that had outlived their design life should have been replaced and rebuilt, but they had not, and named the Calabar-Itu-Odukpani road as falling within this category.

The minister stated, “They were built in the 1970s, and not only have they outlived their design life, they have had to deal with tonnage and capacities well beyond what their design intended. Can such a road be truly expected to stay intact and deliver a pleasant motoring experience?

“Thankfully, these type of roads are now receiving attention under President Buhari, as the Calabar-Itu-Odukpani, Gombe-Biu, Ilorin-Jebba and other roads that fall within this category are being awarded for reconstruction, along with the third class of roads, which are just being built.”

As for the second category, the minister stated that the roads had been victims of overloading, right of way abuse, and lack of maintenance as depreciation sets in.

He said, “Members of the public must know that roads are depreciating assets. They do not last forever and require regular maintenance and, with time, replacement, if they are to serve their intended purpose. These factors of abuse and lack of maintenance combine to reduce the quality of our motoring experience on the roads.

“With this background, I will now pose the question: How bad are our roads? Some have repeatedly said, ‘All the roads are bad.’ That is not true. We have good parts and bad parts caused by abuse and lack of maintenance.”

Fashola stated that many citizens, some of whom had not used the roads, readily describe Nigerian roads as a death trap.

He said, “I undertook a tour of our roads earlier this year to see things for myself. We went by road and travelled in two buses, driving for at least 12 hours every day. We left at 8am daily and drove until 8pm at the least. On one occasion, we drove for 18 hours, from 8am to 2am the following day.

“We drove through different sections of roads that had outlived their design life, those that are within their design life with failures in some cases, and those that are currently under construction.”

http://www.signalng.com/nigerian-roads-not-bad-fashola

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These people are mad ..90 percent of the road in Nigeria are in a horrible state . What kind of people are these abeg ..

Babatunde Raji Fashola is a mad man!
Always ejaculating rubbish.

What is he talking about?

Even the road to his village is a death trap.


Mumu minister!

Very misleading headline. Read this part again:

“With this background, I will now pose the question: How bad are our roads? Some have repeatedly said, ‘All the roads are bad.’ That is not true. We have good parts and bad parts caused by abuse and lack of maintenance.”

F-A-S-H-O-L-A-I

Nigeria roads are not bad... But have outlived there usefulness.


APC.. Chai .you people can lie

Faints... View the thread again... Faints very well

Fashola,may the dilapidated condition of Enugu-Onitsha and expressway become the exact condition of your health.
Fashola your life and that of your children, including that of your baby mama and child in Cape Town be patched as the federal roads in Igbo Land.

APC sef

APC Lagos members sef

Buhari sef

Nigerian federal or state roads.

For the minister to say Nigerian roads are not bad, he needs to discuss fully the roads he has travelled in the last six months, Moving around well-paved Abuja roads does not justify this irrational statement, the statement is an insult to the generality of Nigerians who uses the road every now and then, his statement is an insult to the lives that could have been active today who were cut short by Nigerian roads, has he travelled from Lagos to Abuja and spend almost 18 hours on the road or from Lagos to Enugu and spend 9 hours on the road or Lagos to Calabar and spend 15 hours on the road or Lagos to Ibadan and spend 4 hours on the road. Here is a man who i am very sure is always in the air, and looks down at the road, and is making those judgments. Sir, get down from your high horse and come see the giant holes in our roads. Our roads are ranked 127th in the world. Those are very sad. Proffer solutions and stop justifying the unjustifiable.

amnesty7:
Very misleading headline. Read this part again:

“With this background, I will now pose the question: How bad are our roads? Some have repeatedly said, ‘All the roads are bad.’ That is not true. We have good parts and bad parts caused by abuse and lack of maintenance.”

when he was in the opposition side of politics,he didn't know there are good and bad roads,now he is feeling the pinch.......

Mum minister, soon he will say skull mining is not a sin

Fashola

What do you expect from our politicians that travel with flights, live in the developed parts of Abuja, Lagos, Kaduna etc.

UbanmeUdie:




Babatunde Raji Fashola is a mad man!
Always ejaculating rubbish.

What is he talking about?

Even the road to his village is a death trap.


Mumu minister!

Mad man indeed.