The federal government has resumed work on dualisation of the uncompleted sections of the 375.9 kilometer Abuja – Kaduna – Zaria – Kano highway.
Minister of Works, Engineer David Umahi, revealed this during the flag-off of the completion works and handover of the 38km dual carriageway section of the road to Dangote Group.
In a statement by the special adviser on media to the minister, Barrister Orji Uchenna Orji, Umahi charged the three companies handling the three sections to show absolute devotion to the completion of the project.
He noted that the ministry would look at the need for rate review to cushion the effects of increase in material costs, given the last review about nine months ago.
Umahi also launched the federal government’s ‘Operation Free our Roads’ project aimed at ensuring that all federal roads under rehabilitation are made motorable from this rainy season.
He said the government is using this as a point of contact to flag-off Free our Roads all over the country, adding that stone-base will be used to put and free all the potholes.
The works minister emphasised the need for the ministry’s engineers to take the task seriously, including those of FERMA.