Kano State Government led by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has commenced road projects in the state worth N2.5bn.
The development was made available to newsmen in a statement released on Sunday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Abba Anwar, Tracknews reports.
In the statement, Anwar noted that the construction is ongoing in Garo town and neighbouring communities of Kabo Local Government Area of the state.
The project according to him will facilitate the movement of citizens and farm produce from rural communities to major markets across the state when completed.
Tracknews understands that the ground-breaking ceremony of the project was held on Saturday, March 12, 2022.
Governor Ganduje was represented at the event by the Commissioner for Local Governments and Chieftaincy Affairs, Murtala Garo, and supported by the Commissioner of Works and Infrastructure Development, Eng. Idris Wada.
Speaking at the event, Garo boasts that the Ganduje administration would work round the clock to improve rural infrastructural development.
He said: “There is an 18km road from Kanye-Kabo-Dugabau, which crosses eight Wards out of the ten Wards of Kabo Local Government. The project started in 2018 and was abandoned halfway.
“But the contract was revoked after construction of 9km. It was re-awarded, for the completion of the remaining 9km. The total cost of the contract is N1.6 billion.
“There is also another road construction within Kabo town, which cumulatively stands at 3.9km, at the total cost of over N800 million.
“This project, like similar projects across so many rural communities in the state, faults unsubstantiated claims by some people that, rural communities are abandoned in the infrastructural development of this administration as similar projects could also be sighted elsewhere,” he noted.
