The current administration has fulfilled the promise it made in May 2015 as regards developing road infrastructure, President Muhammadu Buhari declared on Monday.
Buhari, however, stated that the government would continue to work on the country’s road network and stressed that his administration had raised the country’s budgetary commitment for capital projects from 15 per cent to a minimum of 30 per cent.
Buhari said, “Presently, the haulage of industrial goods and raw materials, agricultural produce, petroleum products, power plant components and many other equipment are carried about using the nation’s road network. It was this realisation that underscored our promise of change in May 2015 with infrastructure as a priority. This we have fulfilled by policy and action.
“It is on record that this administration has raised our annual budgetary commitment for capital projects from 15 per cent to a minimum of 30 per cent and committed to a fiscal stimulus targeted at infrastructure. The result is a revival of construction activity on highway projects nationwide.
“From 2015 to date, my administration has constructed and rehabilitated several hundred kilometres of interstate federal roads and bridges to ease the movement of persons, goods and services.”
The President, however, stated that in order to take advantage of the full benefits of ongoing projects and get value for investments, users of the facilities must change their ways.