Nigeria's Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, affirmed that none of the road projects going on in the country can last for seven years.
The minister made the revelation in Abuja yesterday in a meeting with contractors handling federal road projects.
He stated that the contractors cheated Nigerians with the substandard materials used to construct roads.
“There is no project being constructed right now in Nigeria that is going to last for seven years. The question is: are we going to be maintaining or reconstructing our roads after every 10 years? That’s what we’ve been doing.
“I traveled from Abuja to Benin City through Lokoja, all the stretches of the road are on contract, ongoing. This is through the policy of the last administration, but how many of the roads are motorable? I traveled through the roads myself and I shed tears for the kind of pains our people are going through.
“I spent 14 hours on the road having started my journey from 10am and got to Benin City at 2pm the next day and I was very happy I experienced the pains. President Tinubu said I must travel through all the projects so that I’ll brief him on my experience and tell him the truth.”
