The Federal Government will on Friday (today) receive the
Outline Business Case Certificate of Compliance for 12 pilot federal highways
billed for concession.
The concession of the roads may also signify the return of
toll gates as concessionaires will have to recoup their investments.
It was learnt from the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing
in Abuja that the 12 roads were under the ministry’s Highway Development
Management Initiative.
Our correspondent gathered that the Infrastructure
Concession Regulatory Commission would hand over the certificate to the
ministry today at the FMWH headquarters in Abuja.
It was further gathered that the 12 highways combined
represent about 1,963km and less than 5.6 per cent of Nigeria’s 35,000km
federal highway network.
The 12 routes of the pilot phase include Benin-Asaba,
Abuja-Lokoja, Kano-Katsina, Onitsha-Owerri, Shagamu-Benin and
Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga.
Others include Kano-Shuari and Potiskum-Damaturu,
Lokoja-Benin, Enugu-Port Harcourt, Ilorin-Jebba, Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta, and
Lagos-Badagry-Seme border.
A document on the objectives of the HDMI stated that the
initiative would attract sustainable investment/funding in the development of
road infrastructure.
It said the HDMI would maximise the use of assets along the
right-of-way and develop other highway furniture.
The HDMI, according to the ministry, targets to develop an
ecosystem along the federal highway network by bringing multi-dimensional
resources of skills, finance, technology and efficiency into national highway
governance.
It stated that the home-grown initiative would become the
lasting solution to the development, management and maintenance of Nigeria’s
35,000km federal highways.
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