Mr Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Works and Housing, has disclosed that the Federal Government always ensure that road construction in the country are in sync with global standard.
Fashola made this remark while voicing his opinion on the achievements recorded by President Muhammadu Buhari administration in the transport sector
According to him, “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,’’ he said.
The Minister also spoke about the percentage of roads that were constructed/rehabilitated under the 2020 budget.
“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, ” he said.
Acccording to the former Lagos State Governor, construction companies once in a while do more work that exceed the budget, saying that this development leafs to debt in the part of government.them.
“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,’’ he said.
Fashola lamented that Buhari’s government met lots of abandoned projects from previous governmentts, adding that it would complete them .
