FG extends Keffi–Nasarawa–Toto Road project to Abaji

By John Alechenu, Abuja

The Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi, has announced that the Federal Government has approved the hold of the ongoing Keffi–Nasarawa–Toto Road task from 180 kilometres to 199 kilometres.

Umahi made this known during an inspection sojourn to national roadworthy projects successful Nasarawa State connected Saturday.

He explained that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu approved the hold arsenic portion of his administration’s efforts to heighten inter-state connectivity and easiness the question of goods and radical betwixt the North-Central portion and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The Keffi–Nasarawa–Toto–Abaji corridor is simply a large interstate way linking Nasarawa, Kogi, and the FCT.

According to the Minister, the execution of the task volition beryllium carried retired successful phases. Phase One, covering 7 kilometres, has already been captured successful the 2025 fund and is presently nether procurement, portion Phase Two, covering the remaining 130 kilometres, volition travel shortly.

Umahi explained that the operation attack includes the excavation of failed sections, refilling with lumps and crisp sand, stabilisation with 2.5 to 3.5 percent cement, and compaction with a chromatic basal earlier reopening the roadworthy to postulation for further compaction.

“For the shoulders, we volition excavate 20 centimetres, compact, refill with a chromatic basal successful 2 layers of 10 centimetres each, and stabilise with 3.5 percent cement,” Umahi said.

“After that, we volition mill 4 centimetres of the existing wearing course, premix it with caller chromatic base, and compact again earlier applying the binder and wearing course.”

He besides urged authorities governments to show contractors intimately to guarantee strict compliance with engineering standards, informing that the Federal Government would not tolerate substandard work.

“This medication volition not tolerate substandard work,” Umahi cautioned. “States indispensable instrumentality ownership of projects wrong their boundaries by reporting immoderate lapses promptly.”

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