Labour Party not in contention for presidency – Ondo senator

The lawmaker representing Ondo South Senatorial District, Senator Nicholas Tofowomo, shares his thoughts with PETER DADA on bad roads in the South-West and the 2023 elections, among others

The lawmaker representing Ondo South Senatorial District, Senator Nicholas Tofowomo, shares his thoughts withYou recently lamented the state of federal roads in the South-West region. How bad is the situation?

Look at Abuja; the major roads in Abuja are constructed by Julius Berger. They have a format. At times when I look at our roads, I just laugh and say, ‘what is this?’ If you go abroad, they will tell you a road has been constructed for 20 years but in Nigeria, you construct a road, in one year it is gone. It is very unfortunate.

Should the South-West be facing this problem when there is someone from the region as minister for works? It is because they don’t have a master plan. If they have a master plan, they will say, ‘This year, let us construct 1,000 dualised roads. These 1,000 dualised roads, we are dividing into 36, so that we can give 30 kilometres to each state’. Let us look at Ekiti and Ondo states; they are entitled to 60 kilometres. Even if you look at what former governor, Ayo Fayose, did; he constructed a good road from Ado-Ekiti to Ikere.

That is why you see people clamouring for state police. It is because the Nigeria Police Force has failed. If the government is serious, in three years, they can turn the Nigeria Police Force around. All they have to do is to have a master plan or a work plan on how to attach a police officer to 200 people. But presently, we have 400,000 police personnel; that is one police to 500 people. That one alone has failed. We don’t have a meaningful police station.

With the underfunded federal police, how are you sure that state police will not be underfunded as well?

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