Declare emergency on federal roads in Ekiti, Oyebanji urges FERMA DG

Ekiti State governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji,  has called on the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) to, as a matter of urgency, classify the conditions of federal roads as an emergency situation and make concerted efforts to fix them without further delay.

 Oyebanji made the plea when he paid a working visit to the Director General of FERMA, Engr Nurudeen Rafindadi, at the agency’s headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday.

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He said Ekiti roads were among the best in the country until early this year when an unprecedented huge number of heavy trucks started plying the roads as alternative routes to Abuja, South East and parts of the North.

Responding, the FEEMA Boss, Engr Rafindadi said the agency had no excuse for not fixing Ekiti roads, in view of its economic advantage to the country as well as the fact it would constitute an embarrassment to the agency.