Delta State governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has faulted the federal government inability to fix most of the federal roads, particularly in Delta State, urging it on sustainable policy for roads’ maintenance.
The governor who made this known at the weekend in Ughelli, while responding to allegations that his administration failed to reconstruct failed portions of Federal roads, however, called on the federal government to have a sustainable policy on roads’ maintenance.
Recall that in the past three weeks, the governor had been criticized for alleged insensitivity to the failed portions of roads, especially that of federal roads across the state.But the governor in what he described as crass ignorance of governance, explained that failed portions of federal roads was not peculiar to roads in Delta but, most of the roads in all states of the country, asserting that most of the federal roads are failing saying, “I believe there should be a policy by the federal government to maintain the roads without which the problems in our federal roads will persist.”
Governor Okowa also disclosed that most of the states’ governments were stopped by agencies of the federal government from fixing such roads even at no cost to the government, adding that the burden of reconstructing federal roads is the sole responsibility of federal government.