A group of Engineers under the delegation of Honourable Minister of State for Works and Housing, Engr Abubakar Aliyu have visited Adamawa State an inspected the ongoing work in the Cham-Numan road awarded contract by Federal Government.
The work which is under the supervision of the ministry along the Gombe-Yola Federal High way is receiving much attention as it is a serious work in progress.
The Engineers from the Headquarters in Abuja have also inspected site of the ongoing work of Mayo-Belwa Jada-Ganye road on Tuesday.
The team of the engineers Wednesday inspected the about one kilometer Jimeta bridge which is linking Northern Adamawa Senatorial zone and the Southern senatorial zone of Borno state.
Recall that the Gombe-Numan federal road rehabilitation project was awarded afresh by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in 2016.
Nearly two years into the life of the multi-billion naira contract, Nigerians plying the road are not elated about the progress of the project.
The federal government awarded the contract for the completion of the rehabilitation of the Gombe-Numan-Yola road to Triacta Nigerian Limited and Chinese Geo-engineering Company (CGC).
Our reporter also observed the presence of road construction equipment which were parked at the spots where fresh works were being carried out. Vehicles had to dust their way through the freshly graded portion of the road which is awaiting further development along the Savannah Sugar company.
Questions in the lips of many Nigerians is that the road has repeatedly featured in budgets since 2016 and it is becoming more unmotorable as the years pass by. What happens to the billions of naira earmarked all these years?
According to a record by the federal ministry of works revealed about N90 billion was earmarked by the Federal Government for all roads construction in Adamawa excluding that of M/Belwa
An official of the federal roads in charge of Adamawa in an interview last year told our reporter that lack of enough funds affecting slow construction of some federal roads in the state.
