Reps react to FG’s order banning states from rehabilitating federal roads

The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Federal Road Maintenance Agency, Hon Femi Bamisile has faulted the Federal Government over its decision barring the states from reconstructing federal roads across the Federation.

Bamisile said the order will further worsen the deplorable states of federal roads in the country.

Bamisile, who is representing Ekiti South Federal constituency II, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare emergency in the road sector, saying this remains the best way to tackle deplorable conditions of the roads.

The lawmaker said this in Ado Ekiti on Friday after the House of Representatives Committee on FERMA inspected the collapsed bridge on Ureje river along Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, which caved in after a torrential downpour on Monday and killed a man in the process.

Bamisile said the directive from the Minister of Works, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola that the states should refrain from Reconstructing federal roads shouldn’t have come at a time the federal government is financially incapacitated like we are experiencing.

“It is disturbing to hear that two institutions Are Babalola University and Federal Polytechnic and a section of Ado Ekiti capital city was cut off by flood and a man was killed in the process.