FERMA warns residents against abuse, damage of rehabilitated roads in Ekiti

The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) has cautioned motorists and residents successful Ekiti State against practices that could harm recently rehabilitated national roads, including indiscriminate parking of heavy-duty vehicles, petroleum merchandise spillage, and vandalism of nationalist infrastructure.

The Director of West Operations, Engineer Francis Isabiyi, gave the informing during an inspection of Sukuk-funded roadworthy projects crossed the state. The sojourn was portion of a nationwide appraisal of national roadworthy interventions financed done the Sukuk enslaved initiative.

The inspection covered cardinal task sites, including a 1.2-kilometre agelong passing done Ikunri Modern Market (Alubarika Market) successful Ikunri-Ekiti, Ikole Local Government Area, and a 1.6-kilometre conception linking Itawure to the Osun State boundary.

Speaking with journalists astatine Ikunri, Isabiyi expressed restitution with the prime of enactment executed, noting that FERMA’s targeted sectional repairs person restored severely damaged portions of the road.

He explained that the agency’s involution strategy focuses connected rehabilitating captious segments of national roads alternatively than embarking connected afloat reconstruction, adding that akin projects are ongoing crossed the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

Describing the inspected way arsenic a large trunk corridor, Isabiyi said it connects Abuja done Ifaki, Ikole, and Omuo, with onw...