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Transport Minister, Amaechi, explains why Nigerian roads keep collapsing
Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, said on Thursday that roads in the country keep going bad due to the overbearing vehicular weight they are exposed to.
Amaechi, who disclosed this at the Port Harcourt Area office of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) where he commissioned five of 20 newly acquired craft of NIWA, noted that the roads were not originally designed to carry overbearing vehicular weight.
Represented on the occasion by NIWA Managing Director, George Moghalu, Amaechi said: “Water transportation is the way to go. Our roads are not designed to carry the weight they are carrying and that is why they keep collapsing.
“If, for example, we have five million trailers going between Lagos and South East, that translates to going and coming of ten million trailers. Our roads are not designed for such pressures. All over the world, bulk cargo is usually moved by water so why would ours be any different?
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“We are laying emphasis on Private Public Partnership, talking with some organization interested in doing Transport Ferry. We are talking and they are going to do that. We all believe inland waterway transport is the way to go. We are investing in the renovation of some old ferry and others are already in the water”
The Minister noted that inland Waterways was a verified safest, and cheapest mode of transportation.
He added that NIWA’S acquisition, and use of different vessels being commissioned would help make way for investors to come in.
He listed the five vessels commissioned to include: a Tug Boat, House Boat, Water Ambulance and two Patrol Boats.
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