N761bn Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Road: FG insists on June 2026 deadline

John Alechenu
Abuja: The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has directed contractors handling assorted sections of the N761 cardinal Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Road to instrumentality to agreed timelines for the completion of the project.

He besides said that henceforth, the ministry would importune connected milestone completion and not trust connected certificates for payment, emphasising the project’s value for determination development.

Umahi said this during an inspection circuit of the Abuja-Kaduna conception 1, 2, 3 connected Saturday.

The 700-kilometre dual carriage roadworthy task aims to heighten connectivity, boost economical growth, and amended information crossed Northern Nigeria

Some sections of the roadworthy person a 14-month timeline for completion.

Umahi who was accompanied connected the circuit by the Minister of State, Bello Goronyo, and different offices declared that Saturday has present been designated for tract inspection.

The curate besides highlighted the innovative attack being adopted for the project, including the usage of reinforced factual and flexible asphalt pavement.

He urged contractors to present prime work, emphasizing that his integrity was astatine involvement if the task is not completed wrong the specified timeframe.

Umahi said, “We can’t enactment successful the bureau and cognize what is going connected on the field. Site inspection, sharing ideas are cardinal to the occurrence of immoderate engineering project.

“We person informed the President that the clip of completion for the task is 14 period for conception 1 and 3 and 2.

“For conception 1 and 3, a full of 118 kilometers was fixed astatine a full terms of N252 billion, the President has paid 30 per cent, which is astir 60 billion.

“Section 2 is astir 72 kilometers by 2 which is reinforced factual with 15 Kilometers is going to beryllium connected flexible alspat pavement. Total outgo is N507 cardinal and 30 per cent has been paid which implicit 150 billion.

“If we harvester the 2 projects up to Kano, it is astir #761 billion, which is highly courageous and I Commend the President for his involvement successful gathering these roads.

“We tagged the task arsenic rebuilding Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-kano roadworthy by President Bola Tinubu. He has truthful overmuch passionateness that the roadworthy beryllium completed and he’s backing it arsenic precedence project.

“We are blessed for the conception completed connected concrete. Before it was operation of roadworthy which was lasted for 10 years, present we are gathering roads.

“We are precise blessed and assured that the roads being built by the contiguous Administration volition past for implicit a 100 years and it is simply a bequest we volition permission for incoming generations arsenic determination volition beryllium nary request for rebuilding those roads again. This explains wherefore we person speech to the contractors to bash a bully job.”

He further said, “The President has directed that we replicate what we person successful the West astir present with each accompanied facilities and we volition bash his bidding.

“We privation to commend the contractors and we besides privation to frown earnestly (at the gait of work) due to the fact that my integrity is astatine signifier if we don’t implicit the task successful 14 months.”

Umahi urged Nigerians particularly young engineers, to recognize the caller inclination and innovation successful roadworthy construction.

The curate besides said, “The President has directed that nary NNPC task should beryllium stopped, we are going to prioritize it, we are going to enactment guardant what a contractor we bash successful the adjacent 1 year, we are going to moving connected milestone and not connected certificate.”

According to him, Roads and Bridges play a important relation successful the maturation of the nation’s indicators Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

In his remarks Goronyo commended the contractors for the prime of enactment truthful acold done but charged them to amended connected their velocity successful bid to marque up for clip mislaid to delays owed to the rainy season.

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