Reprieve may be under way for the groaning road users as the senate yesterday confirmed plan to work out a special intervention fund for full scale repairs of all the dilapidated federal roads across the land.
Meanwhile the senate committee on works has asked the federal government to declare state of emergency on roads, lamenting that most of the federal high ways have become death trap .
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