{"id":50633,"date":"2024-10-02T15:40:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=50633"},"modified":"2024-10-02T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:40:53","slug":"senate-summons-works-minister-umahi-over-poor-state-of-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/10\/02\/senate-summons-works-minister-umahi-over-poor-state-of-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Summons Works Minister Umahi over Poor State of Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate on Wednesday summoned Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, to address the deteriorating condition of the Old Oyo-Ogbomosho Road.<\/p>\n<p>The decision came after a motion of urgent public importance was raised by Senator Buhari Abdulfatai (APC, Oyo North), highlighting the suffering of travelers due to the road&#8217;s dilapidated state. Abdulfatai noted that the road, a crucial link between the South and the North, has remained in poor condition for over a decade since major repairs began, leading to frequent accidents and daily traffic congestion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Umahi is expected to appear before the Senate Committee on Works to explain the reasons behind the abandonment of significant portions of the road years after the contract was awarded. The senators supported the motion unanimously, with Senate President Godswill Akpabio directing the Committee on Works to report back to plenary in three weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate on Wednesday summoned Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, to address the deteriorating condition of the Old Oyo-Ogbomosho Road. The decision came after a motion of urgent public importance was raised by Senator Buhari Abdulfatai (APC, Oyo North), highlighting the suffering of travelers due to the road&#8217;s dilapidated state. Abdulfatai noted that the road, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":50634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50638,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50633\/revisions\/50638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}