The Director Highways Construction and Rehabilitation, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Mr Funso Adebiyi, said yesterday that the ongoing reconstruction of Abuja-Kaduna-Kano road would be completed by the end of 2023.
“The ongoing reconstruction work on the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano road project has been progressing appreciably and would be completed in the life of this administration,” Adebiyi said during an inspection tour of the project to assess the progress of work done so far.
He expressed satisfaction at the “quality of work going on and we are working to increase the pace of work.”
He added:”You can see that work is going on simultaneously on all sections of both lanes of the dual carriage 375 kilometers road from Abuja-Kaduna- Kano.”
The director appealed to Nigerians to be patient with the government in its commitment to deliver a qualitative work that would stand the test of time.
He also appealed to road users to bear the discomfort being experienced daily due to blockades and diversions.
“We have made a lot of progress because more than 100 kilometres, though not at a stretch, have been completed under section one to three (Abuja-Kano),” he said.
He said that 40kilometres have also been completed under section two (Kaduna-Zaria), and 70kms completed under section three (Zaria-Kano).
He said:”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.
“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.”
Contract for the project was awarded to Julius Berger Nigeria Plc on Dec. 20, 2017, while work commenced on May 21, 2018 on the proposed 36 months’ completion date.
