FERMA Intensifies Maintenance of Federal Roads in Bauchi

……Engineer Appeals For Timely Release of Funds To Avoid Cut Offs

From Paul Orude, Bauchi

The Federal Roads Maintenance Engineer for Bauchi State, Engineer Daniel Joroh Nanpan, has appealed for timely release of funds ahead of the raining season to avoid road cut offs.

Speaking with journalists in his office, Nanpan said FERMA has begun maintenance of several kilometres of federal roads across the state, urging for timely release of funds to avoid cut offs

It will be recalled that many travelers were stranded last year in Bauchi as a portion of the Bauchi-Jigawa road was cut off and washed away by heavy flooding, causing significant disruption and inconvenience.

Maintenance repairs of Kari-Yana Jigawa state border road in Bauchi State By FERMA

Nanpan pleaded with FERMA management team to consider some of the proposals that had been sent on the various washout locations that occurred during last year raining season in Bauchi State.

He believed timely release of funds ahead of the raining season would enable his team to complete all the road maintenance projects and attend to washout locations before the raining season.

He said presently FERMA is executing on-going projects on the 2024 contracts, though the contractors delayed reporting.

General maintenance and repair of Bauchi-Gombe state border road in Bauchi state

“They are supposed to have reported last year, around November, December but thank God it is never late than done,” he explained

“Presently, we have three contractors working on our various sites.

“The main one is the one of Bauchi-Jos road, and the project is almost 100 percent completed.

“We still have a lot of challenge around Katagum area,” he revealed

Nanpan expressed optimism that the road maintenance projects in the state would be completed before the raining season..

“With what they are doing now they are within the time limit and before the end of April all these on-going projects will be completed, be sure we have covered 20 kilometre ” he said

“In Gombe road we are going to cover five kilometres. Then the one of Kari-Yana the bulk of the work is on retaining wall. So on the carriage way it is just like 7 kilometers that will be porthole free. We intend to cover that within the next one month plus left.

“There are lots of washouts that had not been tackled so we are pleading with the management to approve and hasten the process so that we can attend them before the raining season, so that we will not have cut offs like last year”

“The project on that site is starting from Kilometre 50 from Plateau State border and the contractor is going to cover from 50 to 70.

“So from kilometre 0 to 50, we have an on-gong project by the ministry of works so we cannot work on that location for now.

General maintenance and repair of Bauchi- Jos Plateau state border road in Bauchi state

“The federal Ministry of Works has a contractor there but he is not on site and we are praying that he would soon come and continue so that we can have 0 to like 80 or 70 total free of portholes.

“We are still talking with the controller of works so he is still talking with the contractor to come back to site because we started the work around November –December 2024 and didn’t go far.

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“I can not say much about that because I don’t know exactly their own scope of work but my own started from 50 Kilometre to Kilometre 70.

“When you go there now it is porthole free and there will be a lot of overlaid along the road there”

Nanpan revealed that FERMA is also carrying out road maintenance project along Bauchi-Gombe road, specifically around Alkaleri town.

“We did some patches and we are doing the long stretch. Most section of that road is having a contractor too by Federal Ministry of Work too.

“We have two major contractors there. We have from kilometre 0 to 30 that is the Dindima Bridge, which is on-going for works.