Mohammed Idris, minister of information and national orientation, has said the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano dual carriage way will be ready for use in 14 months.
This was contained in a statement issued by Rabiu Ibrahim, special assistant (media) to the minister, on Friday in Abuja.
The statement noted that the minister stated this during an inspection visit to the project site in Tafa, Niger State, on Thursday evening.
Idris said while Section 1 of road is from Abuja to Kaduna, Section 2 is from Kaduna to Zaria, and Section 3 is from Zaria to Kano.
The description and scope of works include scarification and pulverisation of existing bituminous surface as sub-base material and filling of embankments.
Others are provision of approved crushed rock material (wet or dry) to 100mm thickness with three percent stabilisation in shoulders and carriageway, reinforced concrete lined drains and other hydraulic structures where necessary.
Similarly, other description and scope of works are: provision of median barriers and median drains where necessary, and provision of CRCP 200mm thick on carriageway and shoulders.
“President Bola Tinubu is very committed and determined to to ensure that this road from Abuja to Kano is completed in record time of 14 months.
“This is the reason the government cancelled the road contract with the former contractor who said it would complete the road in three years and the government refused and insisted on 14 months.
“That is also why it was broken into three segments for ease of construction. Nigerians, especially those plying this road, are anxious to see that the road is completed, ” he said.
He said that delay of any kind would not be accepted.
“The President has given a matching order, and the National Assembly is also given them the necessary cooperation and there will be no issues.
“Within 14 months, we are going to have a brand new road from Abuja end to Kano,” Idris said.
In his remarks, Dave Umahi
minister of works, announced that the ministry has secured a ‘No Objection’ of N252.89 billion from the Bureau of Public Procurement and would present the contract for ratification at the next setting of the Federal Executive Council.
“I am happy to announce that as at yesterday, we got “No Objection” from BPP for a total of N252.89 billion contract sum and I am very sure that FEC will give us approval at next sitting but let me say that we added 10.6 kilometers at the Kano axis to take the project to Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport and we added another 5 kilometers towards Kogi and also full solar light installation to prepare the entire road for operation and maintenance concessioning,” he said.
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