The Minister of State for Works and Housing, Engr Abubakar Aliyu has urged Dantata & Sawoe, the contractor handling rehabilation work on Kano-Shuwarin section of Kano- Maiduguri Road Project, to speed up work to deliver the job on target.
Aliyu who gave the charge when he inspected the road to assess the progress of ongoing work, said he was very worried about the road been delivered on time due to high number of accidents recorded on the road as a result of the bad situation between Wudil and Gaya.
A statement by his media aide in Abuja quoted him as saying, “I was here last December to see the level of work and I am back here today in February to see the progress you made”.
Aliyu who expressed disappointment at the level of work by the contractors in two months from his last visit in December, urged the contractors to double up effort to meet the target.
Accordingly, he told the contractors to carry out the rehabilitation work from both Wudil and Gaya sides in order to finish on time, urging them to bring more machineries and additional staff on site.
Reiterating the commitment of President Buhari to deliver good roads infrastructure for Nigerians, Aliyu said: “We can not always sit behind in our offices in Abuja, expecting results without us coming out to have first hand information on the situation of the roads, that’s why we are always going out for supervision”.
Aliyu also added that, in order to assist the President fulfill his promise to deliver roads, the senior Minister, Babatunde Fashola and himself were always running from pillar to post round the clock to ensure that good results were achieved.
“Just in recent weeks, my senior colleague Minister Babatunde Fashola SAN, was in Edo and Niger states on roads inspection. I was in Numan, Adamawa state yesterday, and now here in Kano state. We divided ourselves to ensure things are going in order,” he said.
The contractors, Dantata & Sawoe had promised the Minister that they will mobilise additional machines and staff to the site in the next two weeks as requested.
He further added that they will concentrate on the dangerous areas of the road in order to reduce the rate of accidents, and later come to complete the work on the bridge.
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