“I know that this is going to be your headline, but the roads are not that bad,” those are the words of Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola on the state of roads in Nigeria.
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, said on Wednesday that Nigerian roads are not as bad as they are being portrayed.
The minister stated this in a chat with State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Fashola said FEC approved the contract for the construction of Bida-Sachi-Nupeko road and the Nupeko-Patigi bridge across River Niger, linking Nupeko and Patigi in Niger and Kwara States at the sum of N58.488 billion.
In a turn of event, Nigerians have flooded the Vanguard Facebook page to drop their reactions and share locations of bad roads across the country to counter Fashola, the former Lagos State governor.
Vanguard had earlier asked Nigerians to name the bad roads they know to counter the minister.
in its first 2 hours, the poll reached over 18,000 people and 2,633 engagements, 422 comments and 70 shares.
Overwhelmingly, Nigerians who reacted to the post mentioned the deplorable state of roads across the federation, calling the attention of the minister to it.
One of Vanguard’s Top Fan on Facebook, Rotimi Adebambo, mentioned Lagos|Badagry express road, Lagos/Abeokuta, Atan/Agbara road, Papalanto/Sagamu road.
Another respondent, Philemon Yusuf Dashe, asked that “Did the minister ever went through Kano -Saminaka-Ungwan Bawa -Jos road? ‘cos he always travels in an aircraft that’s why he’s saying all that.
Source: Vanguard.
