FERMA BEGINS REHABILITATION OF 100 ROADS ACROSS NIGERIA

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In its bid to ensure a safe drive on Nigerian roads, the nation's interventionist; the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA with a mandate of maintaining and rehabilitating these roads, has commenced work to ease the movement of Ngerians.

FERMA's Head of Communications, Maryam Sanusi in an interview, disclosed on Wednesday in Abuja that the Agency has commenced the rehabilitation of over 100 ongoing road contracts nationwide for easy movement of motorists.



Sanusi listed some of the ongoing road rehabilitation projects to include Okene-Kabba road in Kogi, Mokwa-New Bussa in Niger and Birnin Gwari-Tegina-Makera-Mokwa-Jebba road in Kwara and Niger states.

FERMA's Head of Communication added that other roads include the general
maintenance of Kano-Dambatta road linking Kano and Jigawa states among others.

According to Sanusi, the agency was intervening on all stretches of federal roads within its scope, adding that funds had been made available for the projects.

“Our 2016 contracts are still ongoing and they are all on roads; our
direct labour works is still being carried out across federal roads in
the country", she said.

"Most federal roads have outlived their life span and were being degraded daily by overloaded articulated vehicles", she stated.

"FERMA has been tackling the failures that emanate on the roads within its financial capacity and in accordance with its short and long term strategies".

“The agency is still resolute and absolutely committed to ensuring that standards are not compromised through her various programmes, supervision, quality control assurance, monitoring, surveillance systems, productivity and greater output”, the Agency's spokesman stated.

(NAN)