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Monday, September 21, 2020 /9:02 AM / by Dangote Group / Header Image Credit: Construction Review
Group Executive
Director, Strategy, Portfolio Development and Capital Projects, Dangote
Industries Limited, Mr. Devakumar Edwin last weekend appealed to the Federal
Government to embrace concrete road and use cement for the construction of its
roads in Nigeria for durability purpose.
Edwin, who made
this known during an interview with select media men over the weekend, said it will be to the benefit of
Nigerians and even the Federal Government to embrace the option of using
concrete for roads in the country. Aside from being very cheap, he said
concrete roads are more durable and that its maintenance cost is near zero.
According to him: "We are pushing for Nigeria to do a concrete road. It is
cheaper to do a concrete road that will last 50 years than to do a bitumen
road. It will also help in eliminating corruption because if you go and build a
bitumen road, it will have to be adequately maintained, unlike a concrete road
that is very durable".
He further
explained that concrete roads have a long life span, ranging to fifty years or
even more compared to asphalt roads that can barely last ten years or twelve
years. Furthermore, unlike asphalt roads, a concrete road does not require
frequent maintenance and patching.
Concrete roads,
according to him, also have the advantage of not getting deflected under the
wheels of loaded trucks, this makes it consumes 15-20 percent less fuel if
compared to an asphalt road. It also has resistant to automobile fuel spillage
and extreme weather.
Meanwhile, it would be recalled that the Dangote group
has commenced the construction of
concrete roads in various states across the country, particularly in Lagos,
Bauchi, Kogi, Kaduna and Ogun states.
A source in the Dangote cement company said: "We
are very happy at the moment. We can categorically state that we are in more
than five states across the country already constructing roads. The reception
has been wonderful. State governments are beginning to see the need to embrace
concrete roads and we are very happy at the way things are currently
going," the source said.
Executive Director in the Dangote Group, Eng. Mansur Ahmed recently at the Summit of the NESG in Transcorp Hilton also urged the three tiers of Government to embrace the use of concrete roads in Nigeria. He said concrete roads makes more economic sense for a country like Nigeria, as the use of Asphalt has left the roads in deplorable conditions. Noting that asphalt road is no longer in vogue in developed climes, he said the construction of concrete road is faster and can last for half a century compared to Asphalt. According to him, in the construction of concrete roads, the cement raw materials are readily available while Asphalt is imported into the country.
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