The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has expressed that the roads being developed in the nation are done...
in accordance with the general worldwide standard.
Fashola said this while reeling out the accomplishments of President Muhammadu Buhari organization in the vehicle area on Tuesday November 24.
He said;
"I think we don’t have our standards, roads are constructed to a universal global standard and those standards are not made by Nigeria, they are uniform standards.
“You can have a minimum and a maximum, in many cases we have reached some maximum because of the quality of finishing they have applied"
Fashola likewise unveiled that the service utilizes polymer altered bitumen on the Lagos-Ibadan and Enugu-Port Harcourt streets, rather than the 60/70 bitumen since it is more grounded and guarantees elevated expectation.
On the level of streets built in the nation, he said;
“It depends on how you want to report, if you want to report cash side of government, it will be about 75 per cent because we have received only third quarter release and that is 75 per cent of 100.
“But, if you want to measure actual work done, we have done more than 100 per cent."
On development organizations being owed, Fashola added;
“Sometimes, if you budget N1 million, the construction company will do N5 million work, that is why we owe more than what is in the budget.
“It is important to understand this, construction companies don’t keep building materials, they don’t keep laterite, gravel, granite, sand and cement, they make order of such materials any time we pay."
