The Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) says plans are under way to fill up potholes and intervene in the repair of failed roads nationwide as the rainy season sets in.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), acting Managing Director, FERMA, Mr Godson Amos made this known on Sunday in Abuja.
According to him, the intervention was necessitated because of the need to ameliorate the hardship and delays road users face daily.
He was optimistic that the intervention would be acheived within six weeks of the commencement and all potholes and road failure worked on, on federal roads across the country.
He said he had gotten reports across the country of of the deplorable Federal Roads across the country which had caused a lot of inconveniences to road users.
He added that these failures have hampered economic activities due to inability of the people to freely move goods from one place to the other.
Speaking on how the agency would executive this intervention, Amos said direct labour would be deployed by engaging skilled and unskilled youths in the communities.
The chief executive of FERMA however, said funding was a challenge in the maintenance of the 36,000 kilometres of federal highways all year round.
(NAN)