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Onolomemen says, N500 bn needed annually to fix Nigerian roads

Mike Onolomemen, Federal Minister of Works

Onolomemen says, N500 bn needed annually to fix Nigerian roads

byPremium Times
December 10, 2012
2 min read

The bad roads in Nigeria might not be fixed anytime soon , as the Minister of Works says the budget for the fixing the roads is inadequate.

The average budget of N100 billion is rather insufficient and grossly inadequate to repair the Nation’s deplorable roads, with over N500 billion required annually in the next four years to fix the roads, the Minister of Works, Mike Onolomemen, said in Abuja on Monday.

Mr. Onolomemen said this at a public hearing on measures to address the near collapse of roads across the country, and a bill to provide for the maintenance of public infrastructure.

The hearing was organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Works.

The bill seeks to impose a penalty on the heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies in case of failure to ensure regular maintenance of public infrastructure.

The minister said that the annual budgetary allocations to road projects is inadequate.

He said the delay in the release of fund for road projects had also led to delays, and in some cases complete abandonment of road projects across the country.

He noted that out of the N130 billion budgeted for highway projects in 2011, only N88.7 billion was released, while only N110 billion was released from the N143 billion budgeted in 2012.

Mr. Onolomemen said that the average budget of N100 billion for road development is grossly inadequate for the nations’s 35, 000 kilometre of federal road network.

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The minister, therefore, suggested for alternative funding for the maintenance of the country’s highways.

The minister said that a bill for the establishment of Road Fund and Federal Roads Authority would soon be presented to the National Assembly.

“There has to be a special fund to take care of the deplorable roads in Nigeria,’’ he said, adding that with appropriate funding, all roads listed by the Federal Government would be completed in 2015.

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Mr. Onolomemen said that there is a need to charge vehicles conveying petroleum products and steel for using the roads.

In a remark, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, also stressed the need for a legal framework to stop the abuse of roads in the country.

Mr. Tambuwal, who was represented by Samson Osagie, the Minority Whip, urged traffic officials to discharge their responsibilities properly to minimise road accidents.

He said a study has shown that the country loses N80 billion annually to road accidents.

The Chairman of the committee, Ogbuefi Ozomgabchi, called for appropriate legal and institutional framework for road infrastructure.

Mr. Ozomgabchi noted that fixing the country’s ailing road network would require new funding options through the private sector.

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He said between 1999 and 2012, the National Assembly appropriated N1 trillion to the road sector, but in spite of the allocation, only 35 per cent of the federal road network was paved.

The situation he noted, had led to 1,936 accidents between January and December this year based on figures released by the Federal Road Safety Commission

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