Permit
me to go straight to the point. All
protocols observed Sir. I note your
massive achievement in your days as Governor of Lagos State. And it is widely believed that your
appointment as Minister of Works, Housing and Power would witness same
admirable face-lift.
As
down to earth investigating Journalist, we travel a lot and wish to bring to
your notice certain critical roads that need your urgent attention.
One
of them is the Lokoja-Okene highway.
Honorable Minister, the continued state of this road is a serious
indictment and slap on the face of whoever is the Director of Federal Highways
in your Ministry. This major artery, as
important as it is, has caused several unnecessary loss of lives. There is simply no excuse for this road to
remain in this dangerous state two years into the tenure of this
administration. What then differentiates
the APC Government from the PDP, if not prompt attention to vital national
assets?
Secondly,
the very important Western By-pass road between Kaduna City and the exit to Zaria
has been in deplorable state for the past decade. It is still same today. What is the Government doing about it? I passed that road in 2003, 2005, 2009, 2012
and now 2016. It doesn’t speak well of
the Director in charge of Federal Highways!
That road, as important as it is, the gateway leading to the ancient
Kano City ought to receive Federal attention!
That road is as important as the Lokoja-Okene highway and under the heavy
burden placed on your shoulders, there is no continued justification for that
road to remain in that derelict state!
The state of dilapidated road is one reason many found it difficult to
give this Government a pass mark.
Thirdly,
Honourable Babatunde Fashola, I want to draw your attention again to the
continued inhuman neglect of certain roads within the FCT. What you can, please do to rein in these AMAC
so-called Chairmen. It is even a wonder
that the FCT Minister has not deemed it fit to really find out from the local
indigenes the state of their death traps called roads.
One
such impassable road is the Angwa Dadi road in Area C, New Nyanya. That road has been in this decrepit state in
the last Nine years and nothing has ever been done about it. The road cannot be so small to escape the
attention of the Honourable FCT Minister, his AMAC lieutenants, etc. The worst, perhaps, is the Kugbo link roads
that motorists flinch whenever they pass through. Unfortunately, the landlords are not helping
matters! I expected the FCT Minister to
challenge FCT Local Administrators, i.e. AMAC, BWARI, KUJE clamouring for
Tenement rates to instead concentrate on local road repairs; I also expect the
FCT Minister to compel Estate Developers to, as must repair all roads within
and outside their Estates. What kind of
generation of careless Nigerians are we breeding? People who live as if Nigeria is a jungle? This is absurd, very absurd!
By
this open letter, I challenge you Honourable Fashola, come down from your high
horse and visit these death traps.
Nigerians deserve more than budget planning, News Conferences, Promises
and Award of Contracts to roads that are inside the bushes – not the one they
see regularly/
I
challenge you further to invite me to accompany you on these visits. If you want to win the support of the
ordinary Nigerians, this is the best way to go – not through television
displays. Twice I wrote to your office
offering my assistance in Mass Housing, twice they replied me telling me that
my letter was receiving attention, while on good authority your office is
already engaged to privilege persons! But the truth remains that am lucky to
even receive a reply. Others won’t do
it. Honesty, Sir, set a day or two
aside: let’s do an on-the-spot visit, your Directors in charge of Federal
Highways have not lived to expectation.
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