Goronyo Inspects, Applauds FERMA Road Projects In Nasarawa State

The Minister of State for Works, Mr Bello Mohammad Goronyo has commended the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA), for the quality of work carried out on two major roads that share border between Nasarawa State and two states namely Kaduna and Plateau.

This was as the minister thanked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his commitment to road infrastructural development across the nation under the Renewed Hope Agenda.

The Minister gave the commendation while inspecting the Keffi–Gitata–Kaduna State boarder road and the Keffi – Gitata–Shendam, Plateau State boarder road in Nasarawa State, in the company of the Managing Director/CEO, FERMA, Dr. Emeka Agbasi.

The projects were carried out through contract and direct labour maintenance in the 2022 – 2024 budget year in Nasarawa State, which covered 193.62km of repairs and recovery of roads.

This clearly shows the reason why citizens continue to appeal to the Federal government for continuous intervention in road infrastructure all year round.

While briefing the Minister, the Nasarawa State federal roads maintenance engineer, Mr. Aliyu Mohammed, said that the Nasarawa State Field Office prioritized interventions along major federal roads across the State, including preventive maintenance as currently championed by the MD/CEO. He said the projects also included recovery and reinstatement of distressed collapsed sections of the carriageway, shoulders, embankment, desilting and construction of adequate drainages/hydraulic structures to mitigate flooding and to preserve the road.

In his remarks, the Managing Director of FERMA, Dr. Emeka Agbasi, applauded President Tinubu and the Minister of State, Works, supervising FERMA, for the support and cooperation given to the agency.

Agbasi said that the Agency was working to alleviate the challenges of high cost of construction materials, road abuses, training and re-training needs, operational vehicles to cover the networks of federal roads.

A statement by Maryam M. Sanusi, Director of Information and Public Relations of FERMA, said that Agbasi also said that it was working on the low budgetary provisions to enable FERMA deliver more dividends of democracy to Nigerians through the provision of quality road infrastructure.