….Advocates for maintenance culture in Nigeria
By Ayodele Adesanmi
The Coordinator, Ekiti State Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP), Mr. Rufus Adumo, has advocated for proper maintenance culture on Nigerian roads to be able to last longer.
A former lawmaker, Adumo, said that most of the Fadama roads in the country were all in bad shapes, a development he added had made access to rural areas and farmlands to be difficult for farmers to have access to their farms.
Adumo made the remarks yesterday in Ado-Ekiti, while briefing journalists in his office on RAAMP projects in Ekiti State.
“The project is creating access for farmers and those people living in the rural areas to have access to the markets in selling their goods to have more money.
“Ekiti RAAMP has three interventions that have been approved, which include rehabilitation, backlog maintenance of about 73 kilometres of roads to make access for rural roads for this year,” he said.
Adumo pointed out that the body was intervening in some state roads, saying the concept was to create access from the farms for post-harvest losses.
He added that all interventions on rural access roads would be in all the local government councils already divided into phrases, which included “Igirigiri/Ado-Odo-Ado, Ben Folarin/Oke Aso/Ilawe road, Ogotun, Oye/Are, among other roads in the state.
“We will also intervene in some roads reaching about about 131 kilometres and conduct on-the-spot improvements of all the local government roads.”
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The coordinator said the 12 roads that would witness intervention might be spread to 12 contractors that would deliver on the roads, “because this is a performance-based contract.”
Adumo added that 20 states in Nigeria were currently participating in RAAMP now, adding that the president had mandated other states of the country to join the project.
“RAAMP is creating access for all the farmers to the market. Farmers would make more money to enjoy the fruit of the labour and they would get richer through this project,” he noted.
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