Fashola seeks speedy delivery of Kaduna-Abuja highway as closure of NAIA nears
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has called on the contractor handling the repair works on the Abuja-Kaduna highway to expedite action in the early delivery of the road so as to provide seamless movement of traffic on closure of Abuja Airport for repairs.
A statement from the ministry said the Minister while touring the road, stopped at several points on the road to ascertain the quality of work being done in company with the Minister of State, Hon. Mustapha Baba Shehuri and other senior officials of the Ministry, said the Federal Government through the Ministry was effecting the emergency repair work to ensure that the road was safe and motorable even as he called for careful driving to avoid accidents during the period of closure and on the nation’s roads generally.
Fashola said although government has embarked on the emergency repair of the road to make it safe by removing the potholes , a lot depended on the users of the road to ensure that they remain safe and avoid accidents while the closure lasted.
While expecting accident free traffic on the road during the closure period, the Minister expressed regrets that accident-free wish remained farfetched adding that apart from the condition of the roads, human error constituted, from available reports, a very significant factor in road accidents.
“I think that it is fair to say that not many people who manage vehicles on our roads are actually trained to manage vehicles on the roads; many people are auxiliary drivers for want of something better to do”.
“There are rules in the operation and utilization of automobiles”, he said adding that the FRSC has continued to address the problem in terms of education, enlightenment and the introduction of a speed limiting device while his Ministry was also looking at how to assist them in the short to medium terms by introducing some speed cameras to deter people and support the efforts of the Corps.
