Fashola blames bad roads on abuses by users

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has identified abuses by road users, insurgency, among others, as some of the causes of bad roads in the country.

He stated this on Thursday at the 29th Meeting of the National Council on Works in Calabar. The meeting, with the theme, ‘Infrastructure as the pathway for prosperity,’ was attended by permanent secretaries, directors of work, and commissioners of works, among others.

Fashola, who was represented by the Minister of State, Works and Housing, Abubakar Aliyu, said “The need to look beyond public budgets and the clamour for other funding sources for road projects are recurring decimals in the literature of Nigerian highways development.