Nigeria road infrastructure valued at N2.3trillion – Onolememen.

The Minister of works, Arc. Mike Onolememen has disclosed that the road infrastructure in the country, based on statistical analysis can be valued at N2.3trillion.   He stated this during his audience with the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General on International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction in his office recently.

The Minister stated that the Ministry cannot allow such huge investment on road infrastructure built by different tenures of government in the nation to be washed away by disaster such as flood.  He said that such natural occurrences can be mitigated.

Arc. Onolememen assured that the Ministry will work closely with any available expertise to formulate the way forward in protecting the nation’s key infrastructure in its domain.   He however, mentioned that the Ministry is ready to further collaborate with National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in resolving the occurrences of this national question.

The Minister revealed that there is no sustainable development in any nation without sustainable infrastructure; he therefore requested for a forum of nations with different disaster experiences where thinker will come together to discuss on how to avert natural disaster/disaster risk reduction.

Earlier in his address, the leader of the group, Margareta Wahlstrom stated that the group came to reinforce the message on natural disaster management.  She said, it is a global agenda where people from different parts of the world with similar disaster risk experiences e.g. Canada, Japan, Australia etc, could discuss and make contributions to help nations prone to natural disaster just like what was witnessed in Nigeria during last year rainy season, which she said could have been averted.


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