Works and Housing
Minister, Babatunde Fashola, is obsessed with how to rehabilitate all the
federal highways in Nigeria and build new ones to make all parts of Nigeria
accessible and reduce the pains that Nigerians encounter as a result of
deplorable roads. However, while the desire to achieve that target remains very
strong, the resources to do so remains limited, thereby making it difficult for
the attainment of set target in road delivery. In this interview, the Minister
expresses optimism that with improved funding from other sources that the
government is now exploring, the construction and delivery of more roads across
Nigeria will be achieved in line with the agenda of the administration.
Given the funding
situation of Nigeria you appear handicapped and cannot therefore determine the
deadline within which any federal road will be completed because your ministry
cannot fund such roads.
I will like to see
things from the positive side. When you look at what we started with in 2015
when we were inaugurated as ministers, we inherited a budget from the outgoing
administration, so the amount of money in that year’s budget for all the
Nigerian roads was just N19 billion. Now we have roads costing N40billion, N80
billion, $2 billion and the fact that we can even start those kinds of roads means
that we are making progress |||READ
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