Until 2002 the general directorate of roads had its own equipment and accounting, and was funded by the state and by donors that included the World Bank.
Based on World Bank recommendations, it was separated into three parts: FNR for funding, ALM for equipment and ODR for coordination of road activities.
[1] In July 2014 Ernest Mberamiheto, Minister of Good Governance and Privatization, answered questions in a National Assembly debate.
Companies that had been recommended for privatization over a five-year period included SOSUMO[a], SIP[b], SRDI [c], OTB[d], ALM[e], COGERCO[f], LNBTP[g] and ONATOUR[h].
It was recommended that measures be put in place to prevent the assets of these companies being abused in the interim before privatization occurred.