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Fashola Warns States Against Intervention On Federal Roads Without Approval
Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, has warned state governments against intervention on federal roads without due approval by the Federal Government.
Fashola gave the warning while inspecting ongoing federal projects in the Southeast on Saturday in Abakiliki, the Ebonyi State capital.
He said the warning became necessary following the huge debts inherited by the Federal Government, even as he stressed the need to forestall such.
The minister called on state governments wishing to intervene on federal roads to ensure that due approval and permission were granted by the Federal Government.
“For anybody who wants to intervene on federal roads, you must first ask for permission and if you don’t do so, you have broken the law.
“You cannot break the law to please people. We understand that your citizens need the roads, but you cannot do evil to please them,” he said.
He said such practice was unacceptable and that to intervene on federal roads, “you must apply to us, we must see the standard and then refer it to Mr. President-in-council.
“So, I am using this opportunity to repeat that no state government should intervene on federal roads until we have finished payment of the debts we inherited.”
He added that even if a state government does not want to be reimbursed, it must still seek approval, adding that the application for such intervention must categorically state so.
Fashola said the Federal Government was awaiting legislation and debt financing approvals to authorise payment of the refund to state governments that executed federal projects.
He said the federal government had, through a committee constituted by President Muhammadu Buhari, concluded the process of collating claims of various state governments.
Anonymous
May 21, 2018 at 7:06 am
You guys are just scared that the East will start taking care of their roads after 58yrs of neglect by fg.
Anonymous
May 21, 2018 at 6:01 am
Government without vision
Anonymous
May 20, 2018 at 9:07 pm
Nonsense talk
Anonymous
May 20, 2018 at 5:50 pm
Even when federal roads are killing people and the federal government are not ready to fix it???? Wickedness in the highest order
Emma Ajoke
May 20, 2018 at 2:33 pm
“Fashola Warns States Against Intervention On Federal Roads Without Approval”
Answer: Why not be fair to all States as you, Fashola have been to Lagos and some Western States?
Why has there been unequal distribution and allocation of Federal Road Projects?
Why did the Federal Ministry of Works budgeted hundreds of billions of naira in building the Lagos-Ibadan express way, and has not invested a penny on the reconstruction of Port Harcourt -Enugu Expressway?
Why has the second Niger bridge remain stagnated after almost 20 years on the Federal Government Plan. It should be remembered that the original plan for that second Niger bridge was designed prior to 1999, but when Generals IBB and Abdulsalam decided to hand over power to Obasanjo, instead of the winner of that Presidential election of 1999(Olu Falae), everything went asunder. Niger bridge project was no more on the map.
Anonymous
May 20, 2018 at 12:47 pm
So you can get your own share abi.
Anonymous
May 20, 2018 at 11:38 am
What if the federal government is unable or unwilling to do the road ?
Anonymous
May 20, 2018 at 10:11 am
This man must be crazy
Anonymous
May 20, 2018 at 9:04 am
See how Fulani terrorist government act so if a state want to repair the road In their state but it’s a federal road is a crime to do so hmmm terrorist government of Nigeria in action