The Minister of Works and
Housing, Babatunde Fashola, Thursday identified lack of fund as the bane of
poor road network in the country.
He also disclosed that there are
over 500 roads across the country requiring rehabilitation but for poor
budgetary funding.
Fashola stated this during the
2020 budget defence before the joint interactive session of both House of
Representatives and Senate in Abuja.
However, the Minister said that
the Federal government only captured those critical roads with economic value
for attention in the 2020 budget.
Further, Fashola underscored the
importance of private partnership on road construction to make significant
progress in the sector.
Also, he added that the Federal
government required external sources such as Sukuk and other investments, where
money would be saved and used whenever needed for critical roads construction
in the country.
The Minister even disclosed that
only yesterday, his office received over forty nine road requests and wondered
where the funding would be coming from, reiterating that only the existing
roads would be attended in the 2020 budget as he ruled out the possibility of
new roads under this circumstance of financial straits.
In corroboration, the chairman
Senate Committee on Works, Senator Adamu Aliero, enjoined members of the
committee to restrict questions only on national roads other than their
immediate zones or constituencies, lamenting that poor budgetary funding may
not allow to capture such new roads.
Aliero also affirmed that even
the entire ten trillion naira appropriated as National budget for this year,
cannot be enough to even fix the over five hundred existing roads in the
country.
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