Umahi Denies Using Sub-standard Materials On Akure-Ondo-Ore Road

On Thursday, the Minister of Works, Sen Dave Umahi, denied utilizing substandard materials to grow the Akure-Ondo-Ore explicit road.

Umahi noted that President Bola Tinubu committed the Federal Ministry of Works to proceed delivering good, safe, and cost-effective roads passim the country.

President Tinubu awarded the declaration to CBC Nigeria Limited connected July 29th, 2024, for N134bn. Because of the terrain, CBC Nigeria Limited volition usage concrete.

However, a viral video connected Facebook past week accused the ministry and the contractor of utilizing antithetic materials to conception the aforesaid road.

In the video, a complainant accused the contractor of utilizing ligament mesh connected the outer shoulders alternatively of the aforesaid dense reinforcement utilized connected the carriageway.

The curate said, “There is simply a functional quality betwixt the main carriageway and the outer shoulder.

So determination are besides structural differences successful their construction.”
Umahi, represented by the Federal Controller of Works successful Ondo State, Engr. Hussein Olajide explained,

“The main carriageway is the cardinal portion of the roadworthy pavement, and it is utilized for continuous traffic, hefty postulation loads moving constantly. We person trailers, trucks, buses, and different articulated vehicles. Therefore, it experiences precocious flexural stresses and indispensable beryllium designed to antagonistic these forces.

“The outer shoulder, connected the different hand, is expected to transportation lone occasional loads—maybe for diversions, possibly erstwhile a conveyance breaks down and needs to beryllium removed from the main carriageway to assistance the continuation of traffic, oregon for abbreviated stops to prime up and driblet disconnected passengers. So it doesn’t acquisition this continuous axle load and is designed with minimal reinforcement.”

Flanked by the contractor, Mr Li Wei, Umahi said, “The usage of A142 ligament mesh, which you person seen connected the outer shoulder, is simply a modular signifier worldwide. In Nigeria and internationally, it is simply a modular practice. We usage dense reinforcement connected the carriageway due to the fact that of the flexural stresses, and we usage airy ligament meshes connected the outer shoulders due to the fact that they don’t transportation arsenic overmuch load.”

He added, “Going nationwide to each our single-carriageway rigid roadworthy constructions, you volition find a akin design. It is not peculiar to the Ore-Ondo-Akure Road oregon Ondo State. It is simply a road modular recovered successful Nigeria and internationally.