FG orders evacuation of trucks, trailers from Abuja-Kaduna-Kano highway

The Federal Government(FG) has ordered the evacuation of trucks and trailers along the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano highway before the year ends.

It said the move is to ease vehicular movement and reduce damage on the shoulders of the highway.

The Director of Highway Construction and Rehabilitation, Ministry of Works and Housing who is also the Chairman of the Committee, Engr Folorunsho Esan, disclosed this during an inspection tour of the road.

He said a Presidential Inter-Agency Committee has been constituted to this effect.

Engr Esan said the ministry would provide a temporary park at Tafa, along Kaduna road, where the vehicles can park adding that the park would accommodate about 500 trucks when fully operationalised thereby helping to address the problems of road access and insecurity in the area.

According to him, “The Committee was set up by the Minister of Works and Housing, H.E Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN with directives from Mr President for trucks to be evacuated from the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano road so that the contractors can take full possession to enable hitch-free work on the road.”

He added that the purpose of the inspection was to access areas where the trucks could be relocated away from the Right of Way.

“Also, road users can have free passage without bottlenecks. So we are here to inspect facilities that are available where trucks can now be moved to,” he explained.

He further noted that the Tafa axis of the road was more troublesome, but added that there was provision where the trucks would be moved to.

“One of the very pronounced bottlenecks is in Tafa and fortunately enough, we have an empty land acquired by the Federal Road Maintenance Agency although they have not been able to do anything about it.

“But we are thinking of moving the trucks from Tafa to that plot of land after some ground improvements on the land for trailers to be able to stay without sinking,” he said.

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FG orders evacuation of trucks, trailers from Abuja-Kaduna-Kano highway