President Bola Tinubu has given the agency a marching order to ensure that all the roads across the country are maintained.
A board member representing South East zone in the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), Kenneth Ugbala, disclosed this in his Okoffia hometown, Ezza South local government area of Ebonyi State while interacting with journalists.
Ugbala who dismissed insinuations that the South East roads are not receiving the needed attention compared to that of the Northern region insisted that roads in the South East region have been receiving good attention under President Bola Tinubu.
“The President has given us a marching order to make sure that all the roads in the nation are being attended to. Our idea is that there should be an aggressiveness in attending to that responsibility.
“If you watch from Abakaliki to Enugu you see that there is maintenance going on by FEMA. The insinuation that the South East zone was being neglected in road construction by the federal government is false and malicious.”
He noted that the Enugu-Onitsha road was under construction, including the 9th mile/ Gboko/Makurdi road and some other roads within the zone benefiting from the coastal road projects of the Tinubu administration.
Ugbala opined that the president accommodated many roads in the zone in this year’s budget. He also advocated for a maintenance culture on road projects to ensure durability.
