ABUJA— The Senate, yesterday, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to as a
matter of urgency reintroduce toll gates on the nation’s highways to
create a financial pool through which bad roads could be maintained and
rehabilitated.
The Senate also called for the introduction of weigh bridges to help
protect the roads as well as discourage the over usage of the highways
that were constructed for ferrying heavy vehicles and trucks.
Also yesterday, the Senate mandated the Federal Government to make
provisions for repair of major highways in the 2016 budget against the
backdrop that the state of existing roads were deplorable and would need
urgent Federal Government’s intervention. The resolutions were sequel
to the adoption of recommendations of Senator Barnabas Gemade led ad-hoc
committee on works which investigated the total collapse of federal
roads in Nigeria and prevalent gully erosion sites.
