The Minister Of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has laid the majority of the blame for the woes currently facing the country at the feet of the former administration led by Dr Goodluck Jonathan.
Fashola made the claim on Monday in Abuja while presenting the three year scorecard of the ministries in his portfolio.
Fashola said: “If those who came before us had done their work, we will not meet bad roads. That is the simple truth. We earned $100 per barrel of crude oil for about five years.
“We knew what other countries like Abu Dhabi (UAE), Saudi Arabia, did with their own, what did we do with ours? So, this is a President and a government that is now trying to do more with less that it has. So give us some time, we will get there”, Fashola said.
The Minister stated that the Federal Government is executing road projects across every State, especially abandoned projects like the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, the second Niger bridge, Enugu-Port Harcourt road, Jebba-Mokwa way, among others, that have drastically cut down travel time.
The Minister also gave statistics of road projects in the last three years. He said that in 2016, 277 kilometres of roads were constructed, 345km were rehabilitated, and 17,749 people were employed in the process.
For 2017, he stated that the Federal Government constructed 488 roads, rehabilitated 256 others, and engaged 31,227 persons. For 2018 till November, 497km of road has been constructed, 284 rehabilitated, and 30,402 persons employed.
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