The Federal Government (FG) has restated its commitment to completion of the ongoing reconstruction work on the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano road project.
This was even as it said work is progressing on the project and would be completed by 2023.
Engr Funso Adebiyi, the Director Highways Construction and Rehabilitation, Ministry of Works and Housing stated this during the ongoing visit to the project site.
“We are satisfied with the quality of work going on and we are working to increase the pace of the work. You can see that work is going on simultaneously on all sections of both lanes of the dual carriage 375km long road from Abuja-Kaduna- Kano,” he said.
While appealing for patience on the part of Nigerians, he said the work was initially for rehabilitation but now under full reconstruction.
On the level of work done so far, Engr Adebiyi said: “We have made a lot of progress. You can see that over 100km though not at a stretch, have been completed under section one to three (Abuja-Kano), 40km completed under section two (Kaduna-Zaria), and 70km completed under section three (Zaria-Kano).”
He pointed out that while some sections of the road are also at different levels of completion, palliative/remedial work are being carried out on the sections that are critically bad to facilitate ease of passage for motorists.
Reacting to the allegation of delayed work, Engr Adebiyi said “It is important that I correct the wrong impression by the people that work is not moving. We are working to meet up with the deadline and at the same time subjecting all the work to quality assurance test to deliver a good job.”
On the speed of work on the road, the Director Bridges and Design, Engr Adeoye urged the contractor to increase the pace of work by deploying more men on sites to work simultaneously on both lanes.
The Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano road reconstruction project was awarded to Julius Berger Nigeria Plc on 20th December 2017 and the project commenced on 21st May 2018 with the 36 months completion period.
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