Kano to construct 500km roads by direct labour

Governor Abdul­lahi Umar Gan­duje has stated that his administration has concluded plans to award contracts for the construction of roads totalling 500 kilometres across the state as part of plans to enhance ru­ral mobility.

Ganduje, who spoke while inspecting on-go­ing construction of the 18km Minjibir-Ungogo road, explained that the initiative would facili­tate linkages between many communities in several Local Govern­ment Areas of the state.

He added that, “be­sides, several hard-to-reach parts of the state would, by this devel­opment, have the op­portunity to take their farm products to large markets while jobs would be created for our teeming youth.”

He further stated that the projects would be executed mostly through direct labour as the government has directed that all its abandoned heavy plants be repaired in preparation for the work, explaining that, “doing so would save the government the cost of hiring compa­nies, since we have pro­fessional manpower to do the jobs.”

Governor Ganduje promised that govern­ment would pay keen attention to ensuring that the agencies as­signed to do the road projects execute jobs that would stand the test of time.

He, however, advised the people of Minji­bir and Ungogo Local Government Areas to cooperate with KAR­MA, the state agency handling their road project to ensure its speedy completion.