Government’s Road Sector Maintenance Policies, Challenges And The Way Forward By Ag.MD/CEO, FERMA, Engr. Nuruddeen Rafindadi, (FNSE)
In line with Federal Roads Maintenance Agency’s (FERMA) mandate to ensure the efficient and effective maintenance of all existing Federal trunk roads or such other roads as may be declared, from time to time, as Federal trunk roads by the National Assembly and in consonance with the cardinal policy objectives of the Federal Government of Nigeria on Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) which is to restore degraded sections of the Federal highway network to improve connectivity of over 4, 000 km, the FMPW&H recently set out the following operational policy guides to be adopted by FERMA Management for effective, efficient and improved road maintenance: