FERMA Flags-off Operation Safe-Guard Roads In Ogun Corridors

The Ogun State Office of Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) astatine the Weekend, flagged disconnected the ‘Operation Safe-Guard Roads’ (OSGR) arsenic portion of the strategical attack for the vegetation control, arsenic good arsenic desilting of the carriage ways crossed the Ogun State corridors.

The workout witnessed FERMA officials and their adhoc unit engaged for the purpose, clearing buses and cutting down large trees that person overshadowed the highways and inhibiting motorists’ visibilities that often resulted successful roadworthy crashes.

During the flag-off astatine a ceremonial held on the 3-kilometre Ishaga-Ilaro-Owodo-Adoodo-Ikoga road, FERMA’s managing manager and main enforcement officer, Engr (Dr) Chukwuemeka Agbasi said the cognition principally aimed astatine desilting the carriage ways, clearing the bushy sections of the highways by 4-meters backward connected some sides, arsenic good arsenic fixing insignificant repairs connected the roads.

Agbasi, who was represented by the tract Engineer successful complaint of Ogun State, Engr Fasoranti Bamidele explained that the workout volition heighten visibility of motorists plying the roadworthy erstwhile completed, successful summation to minimizing roadworthy crashes on the agelong wherever the national highways traverse successful Ogun corridors.

Fasoranti further disclosed that the cognition besides targeted warding-off miscreants and different marauders that included kidnappers, who ever instrumentality vantage of the engaged broadside of the highways to fell and kidnap travellers.

Emphasising that OSGR perfectly aligned with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, the FERMA’s tract Engineer besides disclosed that the workout has succeeded astatine providing employment opportunities for the teeming Nigerian youths of betwixt ages 18 and 45 years engaged from among the big communities done wherever the workout transverse.

Fasoranti further explained that the desilting of the highways would guarantee that the roads are safer for commuters arsenic the roadworthy shoulders, which person been overgrown by vegetation would beryllium cleared for vehicles’ creaseless passage, thereby assisting motorists to bask safer driving experience.

“Another purpose of the programme is to empower our teeming youths betwixt the ages of 18-45 years connected this programme. By the clip we reason this workout our drivers plying this roadworthy volition person bully visibility and the miscreants volition not person a accidental to perpetrate their evil act”.

Meanwhile, motorists plying the road arsenic astatine the clip of the exercise, applauded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the ongoing road regeneration exercise.