Work on Ore-Ondo-Akure highway meets international specifications – Fed govt clarifies

By Dayo Johnson, Akure

The Federal Government has said that ongoing Ore-Ondo-Akure road enlargement task adhere strictly to approved planetary specifications.

Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, said this to antagonistic allegations of substandard enactment connected the operation of the road, by a contented creator , successful a viral video who raised an alarm implicit the usage of ligament mesh, alternatively of heavier robust rods, successful definite sections of the construction.

Umahi, has however, assured Nigerians” of the road’s structural integrity and adherence to approved planetary specifications.

While expressing restitution with the level of enactment executed by the contractor handling the project, the Minister emphasised that upon completion, the roadworthy is engineered to past for much than 50 years.

According to him this “align with the national government’s committedness to delivering durable, safe, and cost-effective roadworthy infrastructure successful the country.

While assuring that determination is nary origin for concern, Umahi said that the operation of the 86.43-kilometre road is successful accordance with approved engineering designs and specifications, adding that the structural integrity of the pavement was not compromised.

 Umahi, was represented by the Controller of Works successful Ondo State, Olajide Hussein, monitored the Ajue corridor of the task successful the Odigbo assembly country of the state.

He said, “We besides saw the viral video, and the complainant specifically mentioned the usage of ligament mesh connected the outer shoulders and suggested that the contractor usage the aforesaid dense reinforcement present connected the carriage wherever we are lasting with the outer shoulders. There is simply a functional quality betwixt the main carriageway and the outer shoulder.

“So determination are besides structural differences successful their construction. The main carriageway is the cardinal portion of the roadworthy pavement, and it is utilized for continuous traffic, with precise dense postulation loads moving constantly.

“We person trailers, trucks, buses, and different kinds of articulated vehicles. So it experiences precise precocious flexural stresses, and it has to beryllium designed to antagonistic these forces. ‎

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

“Now, the usage of A142 ligament mesh, which you person seen connected the outer shoulder, is simply a modular signifier each implicit the world. In Nigeria and internationally, it is simply a modular practice.

“We usage the dense reinforcement which you tin spot 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.

“So if you spell to each our azygous carriageway rigid roadworthy constructions nationwide, you volition find a akin design.

” It is not peculiar to the Ore-Ondo-Akure Road. It is not peculiar to Ondo State. It is simply a road modular recovered successful Nigeria and internationally.”

Umahi,  besides clarified that the is simply a azygous carriage mode not volition not beryllium dualised

According to him ” The lone summation is the shoulder. The existent information of the roadworthy earlier this operation had nary shoulder, and successful the fewer cases wherever determination was a shoulder, it was a surface-dressed shoulder. So now, the authorities has introduced a afloat 2.75-metre enarthrosis connected each side.

“The declaration is for a 4-year duration, and the contractor is afloat connected course, poised to implicit earlier the extremity of the 4 years.

“It is simply a precise modular roadworthy built according to planetary standards. Initially, the roadworthy was built utilizing asphalt.

The Minister said ” But now, the ministry’s argumentation is to physique each caller roads with the CRCP technology, that is, Continuous Reinforced Concrete Pavement, which stands a amended accidental of surviving longer than the asphalt we were initially using.”

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