The FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, says the FCT Administration will construct Gwagwa, Karimo to Dei-dei road to ease traffic congestion.
Wike made the pledge while inaugurating the construction of access road to Saburi 1 and 2 in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) in Abuja on Wednesday.
Our correspondent reports that the road begins from the Outer Northern Expressway (Murtala Mohammed Expressway, also known as Zuba-Kubwa Expressway) to Old Keffi Road, near Dei-Dei International Market.
The decision to construct the road followed a request by the AMAC Chairman, Mr Christopher Maikalangu, for the minister to consider expanding the road to ease traffic congestion.
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Maikalangu had described the road as a strategic commercial road in the whole of FCT, but in a bad state, narrow and required expansion for the road users.
He also said that the Saburi Road from the expressway to Old Keffi Road would ease the suffering of the people particularly during the rainy season.
He added that the road, when completed, would trigger, and provoke the enormous socio-economic activities and other development strides in the area.
Responding, Wike, asked the people at the event if they were in consensus with Maikalangu on the Gwagwa-Karimo-Deidei road, and the residents anonymously answered yes.
The minister, thereafter, said, “consider it to be done.
This, according to him, is the essence of governance when the government responds to the needs of the people.
He called on the residents to pray for President Bola Tinubu’ for good health and God guidance to be able to keep his campaign promise of providing dividends of democracy to the people.
He said that the construction of additional roads across the six areas councils of the FCT would be inaugurated in the next three months.
He said that the commitment was part of efforts to keep people’s hope alive in line with the renewed hope agenda of President Tinubu.
Earlier, the Chief of Jiwa, Alhaji Idris Musa, thanked Wike for constructing rural roads across the six area councils.
The FCT Minister has inaugurated the construction of six rural roads totaling 42.2 kilometres across six Area Councils.
The roads include 11 km road in Kwali Area Council, five km dual carriageway in Kuje, nine km road in Gwagwalada, 7.2 km road in Bwari, five km road each in Abaji and AMAC.
