Due to its failure to clear the roads of abandoned vehicles, the Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen has accused operatives of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) of allegedly facilitating auto accidents around the Ovia bridge mouth, in Ovia North East, Edo State .
Expressing displeasure over the penchant of FRSC operatives to abandon vehicles that were involved in accidents around the area, the minister threatened to report? their activities to the Corps Marshall.
Onolememen, who was on an inspection tour of rehabilitation works on sections of the Sagamu-Benin expressway, witnessed two other accidents, caused by non-removal of earlier vehicles that were involved in road accidents along the road.
He said, “What we saw on the Ovia Bridge is very disturbing. We saw two accidents there and FRSC is not there to attend to them, but few kilometres to the spot, you have FRSC point. This is unacceptable and I am going to take up the issue with FRSC Corps Marshall.”
Speaking on the commitment of President Goodluck Jonathan administration to deliver on the Africa highway project, the minister during the inspection of the closing stages of the first and second phase of the Sagamu-Benin road rehabilitation work, said the third phase would commence immediately after.
He said: “The road is part of the trans-Africa highway beginning from the Lagos coast, through Ore, Benin, to Mombassa (Kenya). You will recall that Mr. President in his nationwide speech said his administration will deliver on its transformation agenda.
?“The project started years ago, and it is on schedule. The major problem here is the Ovia River bridge head, and how we can reduce carnage and killings around here.
“We have approved the construction of barriers to prevent vehicles diving into the river. By March 2013, stages one and two will be fully completed and the third from Ofosu to Ore, where a flyover bridge will be constructed will commence immediately.”
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