Benin — OWING to the dilapidation of critical economic highways belonging to the federal government across the country, the Presidency has directed the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) to aggressively maintained the highways with a view to achieving " near zero pothole" tolerance before December, 2012.
Zonal Coordinator South - South Zone 11 (SS 11) of FERMA, Engr. Jimoh Kajogbola who disclosed this weekend while flagging-off newly awarded contracts for road maintenance in the Zone at Illah, Delta State along the Benin-Asaba-Onitsha dual carriage way, said that maintenance of roads that were not under contract by the Federal Ministry of Works (Highways Department) would be executed through contracts and direct labour between now and end of November, 2012.
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