Road signage installation subject to competitive bid – FG

Minister of Power, Works and Infrastructure, Babatunde Fashola, says award of contracts for road signage installation across the country, where road projects have been completed, will be advertised in due course as required by law and subject to an open and competitive bids.
Fashola identified road signages as a strategic infrastructure if any nation was to move its transportation system to globally acceptable standards.
Speaking at the 23rd meeting of the National Council on Works at the NAF Conference Centre, Abuja, yesterday, with the theme, ‘Adequate Traffic Signage- An Essential Key For Highways Infrastructure, Safety and Comfort’ the minister stated that as human beings and nations grow, mobility is becoming a major commitment of the global agenda that must be given a serious attention.
The minister maintained that for every nation, development, prosperity and survival is tied to its mobility and by extension its productivity, social and cultural interactions. He stated that the Federal Government is committed to erecting signages on all road infrastructures.
Fashola stated that apart from helping commuters to navigate the journey is only half of the human benefit of signage and mobility policy, there are economic benefits as people will benefit from contracts, jobs and financial rewards that comes from producing signs, fabricating the steel, printing the signs and labour that would be employed in installing them including lane markings.
According to Fashola, “While our roads are still in various stages of completion, our economic needs compel us to refuse to wait until everything is done before we begin to confer the benefits of lane marking and street signage on our people.”
Meanwhile, the ministry is compiling list of roads where significant sections have been completed, and prepare them for procurement and award of sub-contracts in collaboration with its main contractors.
As more sections of roads reach completion, they will be subject to similar processes and this is expected to be continuous. The procurement will be advertised in due course as required by law and subject to open and competitive bids to ensure transparency and due process.

MIKE OCHONMA