The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola revealed during a live television programme on Saturday night that all monies spent by state governments for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of federal roads in their domains have been cleared by the Federal Government.
Fashola also stated that construction and rehabilitation works were currently ongoing on 13,000km of roads out of the 35,000km federal roads across the country.
Responding to question on whether the Federal Government would still allow states to fix federal roads in their domains and be refunded later, the minister replied in the negative.
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The minister added that Mr President is saying that he met debts owed by his predecessors to states for intervention by states on several roads and thank you very much, he will do the honourable thing, he will pay those debts, which he has gladly finished paying.
“So, when people say we are borrowing money, is partly to pay debts owed by previous administration to state governments so that they can use their resources to then go and fix the roads.” He said.
