“Stop Erecting Bumps on Highways” – Ministry warns communities
The Federal Ministry of Works, Power and
Housing on Tuesday warned communities located near federal highways in Nasarawa
State against erecting bumps without approval.
The Federal Controller, Ministry of Works,
Power and Housing in Nasarawa State, Mr Wasiu Adetayo, gave the warning in
an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lafia.
“Normally, for you to fix bumps on a federal
highway, you need to take permission. We always reject such request because it
is not done.
“They will come with various excuses such as
vehicles killed their people and so on, but by the time you fix such bumps, it
is no more express.
not to say I am exonerating drivers who speed recklessly but the fact remains
that we don’t allow speed bumps.
“So, what they do is to wake up one morning
and fix bumps without permission and the bumps they fix cause more accidents
which they are trying to prevent,’’ Adetayo said.
He said it was strange that most of the
communities were erecting bumps without the knowledge or approval of their
traditional rulers and preventing their demolition aggressively.
“It got to a stage that the controller cannot
just go out and say he wants to demolish illegal bumps. They will attack him.
“So, we now propose to the headquarters that
we have to use uniformed men to assist us because eventually it will get to a
stage where we will go out and demolish these bumps.
“We also discovered that to approach this
issue, we need to carry the traditional rulers along,” the federal controller
said.
