The need for the establishment of Rural Road Mentainance Angency and State Road Fund has been accentuated.
The Director of Development Transport Solution Limited and Transport Consultant to the World Bank, Maysam Abadin made the accentuation during an online Sector Reform Consultation Worksshop with Bayelsa and Jigawa states’ stakeholders.
Mr Abadin stated that the agency when established should be independent from the state government for it to be effective and sustainable.
He said the agency will ensure that rural roads remain plyable to enhance the economy of the states and urged the states to establish a legal framework for the establishment of the Rural Road Mentainance Agency and State Road Fund.
The setting up the agency is a precondition for the commencement of the Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project – RAAMP.
In his closing remarks, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministey of Agriculture and Chaiman Bayelsa RAAMP State Project Management Committee, Dr Wisdom Ebiye Sawyer noted that RAAMP has a huge potential for linking many rural roads and urged all stakeholders to work towards the establishment of the road agency.
The online workshop which was held at the Golden Tulip Hotel, Onopa where stakeholders gathered had in attendance, the Commissioner of Agriculture, Bayelsa State, Prof. Beke Sese, his Ministry of Community Development counterpart, Hon Belemote Watson, the State Project Coordinator of RAAMP, Dr Paul Ebienfa and members of the State Project Implementation Unit- SPIU , members of the State Project Management Committee -SPMC and other stakeholders.
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