Written by: Nasiru Garba (SMS/10/MAC/00885)
Every government in the world claim the responsibility of protecting the
lives and property of its citizens. The irony in Nigeria shows that
road users are not in anyway assured of their safety,when you eventually
look at the condition of the roads in Nigeria(federal highways) a
person hardly travel with an open minded soul to reach his destination
safe because the roads have over worked its status. All roads are
subject to renewal after ten years. Take for example the case of Kano to
Kaduna expressway, a lot of things contributed to accidents that
results to the death of our dear citizens
1. Mismanagement by the
authorities concern.
2. The age of the roads necessitate or call for
renewals as it clock 20 years instead of 10 years officially
3.New
bridges were created at that time when the road was dualized to reduced
the intermittent lost of lives, the old bridges were not abandoned by
the contractors, they are all put into use together with the new ones
and now the old bridges claim more lives far more than the single lane
express road. Most of them are on the verge to collapse in the mean time
for example the bridge at Tamburawa along Zaria road was exposed to
such a danger very long time ago and the attention of the authorities
concern were drawn to arrest the situation but till the time of this
publication there was nothing done yet to put it right. We again call
for the authority concern to immediately arrest or come to the rescue of
the citizenry
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