Nigeria: Senate Committee Shocked Over Colonial Bridges
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This Day (Lagos)
25 July 2008
Posted to the web 25 July 2008
Augustine Osayande
Jalingo
Members of Senate Committee on Works Wednesday expressed shock and disbelief on the existence of bridges and federal roads built in colonial times strewn across Taraba State.
Speaking when the committee paid courtesy call on the state Acting Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani, the chairman of the committee, Senator Kabiru Gaya, said they were in the state to inspect federal roads as part of their oversight function.
He said members of the committee were surprised that colonial military bridges are still been utilised in the state. The committee saw four of such bridges in Jalingo/Sunkani road which they described as the worst road in the state.
The committee quickly decided that the N500 million which was approved for the rehabilitation of the road in the 2008 budget should be used in construction of new bridges to replace the existing colonial ones while total re-construction of the road would be budgeted for in 2009. The committee also disclosed that the sum of N1.2 billion has been approved for maintenance of Bali and Rafin-Kada road in the state.
The Acting Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani while responding blamed Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) for using incompetent contractors leading to the poor conditions of Federal Roads in the state. He told the committee that the state has 1,629 kilometers of federal roads and all of them are in bad conditions.
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He said the state government has decided to construct two federal roads at the cost of N10.1 billion and appealed to Federal Government to construct other federal roads in the state to alleviate the suffering of the people in the areas where the roads are located.
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