Dangote Urges Government To Build Concrete Cement Roads

African business tycoon Aliko Dangote has said it is cheaper to do a concrete road that will last 50 years than to do a bitumen road.

The chairman of Dangote Cement says that it will be to the benefit of Nigerians and even the federal government to embrace the option of using concrete for roads in Nigeria.

He further stressed that concrete roads are more durable and the maintenance cost is near zero.

Dangote said: “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.”

Dangote also added: “We are not only building cement plants in Africa, we have gone far away to NEPAL to build a 3 million metric tons Cement Plant capacity and by the time all these our new projects are completed in the next two years, Dangote Cement will have more than 70 million capacity but we are not going to stop there, hopefully, by 2020, our targets is getting to somewhere around 100 million tons capacity.”