Tackling Road Failure

For its particular benefit to quality and sustainable road projects in the state, the procurement of soil testing equipment by the Uduaghan administration is worthy of constructive  appraisal and the co-operation of stakeholders, particularly contractors to realize its objective.
When incidences of road failure occur, experts often attribute this to certain factors such as the soil type and whether the construction materials used for the project are analogous to the nature and texture of the soil.
The state Commissioner for Works, Hon. Funkekeme Solomon, in line with the mandate of his ministry is, therefore, responding to the situation with the resolve to use the laboratory equipment to test the suitability of the construction materials such as bitumen, asphalt and the earth work for the projects in view of the circumstances often surrounding cases of road failure.
Road construction has its challenges. It is usually a field day for contractors as they tackle various variables often encountered in road construction projects, which may not be easily recognizable to people outside the field but efforts by the Uduaghan administration, particularly through its visionary Infrastructural Development agenda, has continued to raise the bar and to make light of any dark sides in construction work.
A testimony to this is the massive release of funds for road projects across the state and other forms of support, including the recent purchase of over 100 laboratory items to assist the contractors in carrying out quality and speedy road projects in the state.
The state government also takes monitoring of the projects very seriously as part of its zero-tolerance for sub-standard jobs by contractors. It has continued to explain that no meaningful development activity can take place without the provision of infrastructural projects such as roads on a massive scale, a leading vision of the present administration which is evident in completed and ongoing projects across the state.
It recently commenced pre-budgetary visits to towns and communities in the state to ascertain their road and infrastructural needs for the purpose of meeting such needs in the 2013 Budget.
In the light of this and other evidence of its commitment to infrastructure provision, the Uduaghan administration has continued to demonstrate that its infrastructural development agenda is credible and tailored to meet the needs of the people.
It, therefore, requires the support of Deltans and all stakeholders to further convert this noble vision into massive gains for the state, particularly greater investment activities for the transformation of the state’s economy and the well-being of Deltans.