The member representing Ekiti South federal constituency II ,Hon Femi Bamisile has called on the federal government to reconsider the directive barring states governments from reconstructing federal roads across the federation.
Bamisile who said the order will further increase the deplorable states of federal roads in the country also urged the President Muhammadu Buhari to declare emergency in the road sector.
The Chairman of the House of Representative Committee on Federal Road Maintainance Agency,( FERMA) spoke to newsmen in Ado Ekiti on Friday after his committee inspected the collapsed bridge on Ureje river along Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, which caved in after a torrential downpour on Monday and killed a man in the process.
Bamisile said the directive from the Minister of Works, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, the states should refrain from reconstructing federal roads shouldn’t have come at a time the federal government is financially incapacitated like we are experiencing.
“It is disturbing to hear that two institutions, Are Babalola University and federal Polytechnic and a section of Ado Ekiti capital city was cut off by flood and a man was killed in the process.
“It was disturbing that a man was killed during the flood I was devastated by the news, because we were elected to defend the rights of our people.
“The House of Representatives will debate the order and address it properly because we can’t subject our people to hardship of bad roads, ,” he said.
