Flood Destroys Newly Rehabilitated Kano-Maiduguri Highway
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has lamented the destruction of section three of the newly rehabilitated Kano-Maiduguri highway by flooding.
Umahi in a statement by his media aide, Orji Uchenna Orji, Umahi said it was unfortunate that completed roads in the country did not last five years.
The Minister, however, noted that a technical team from the ministry had been despatched for on-the-spot evaluation, promising to find a lasting solution to the road.
He also announced the termination of section 1 of the Kano-Maiduguri road awarded in 2007 to Dantata & Sawoe Ltd due to the efflux of time.
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“I am directing the Director of Highway Rehabilitation to liaise with the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Works to immediately deploy some technical people to go and evaluate what we can do over there and it’s very unfortunate that when a job is completed by contractors, we don’t even enjoy the road for five years, and we are back to square one.
“That’s why I’ve been saying that this issue of a one-year liability period is not desirable because every badly executed job can last one year, but it can not last five years. So we are still going to request the contractor that did the job, Mothercart Ltd, to join that team and find out why the road had to cut into two as reported to us today, and that is section three of Kano-Maiduguri road.”
