The Minister of the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, says his administration will construct Gwagwa, Karimo to Deidei road, to ease traffic congestion faced by the commuters plying the Axis.
The Minister made the pledge while inaugurating the construction of access road to Saburi 1 and 2 in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), of the FCT on Wednesday.
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.
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 adding that the road, when completed, would trigger, and provoke the enormous socio-economic activities and other development strides in the area.
Responding, the Minister, asked the people at the event if they were in consensus with Maikalangu on the Gwagwa-Karimo-Deidei road, and the highly elated residents anonymously answered yes.
Wike, 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.
“Mr President has emphasized that our people in the rural areas must be given attention because that constitutes the larger part of the population.
“So it is not only where the elite are living, but also where the poor ones are, so that we will be able to reduce the level of insecurity, make economic activities to thrive and have our farmers bring in their goods to the market,” he said.
The Minister 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 disclosed that the construction of additional roads across the six areas councils of the FCT would be inaugurated in the next three months.
Wike explained the commitment was part of efforts to keep people’s hope alive in line with the renewed hope agenda of President Tinubu.
The Minister appealed to the Senate and House Committees on FCT to support in passing the FCT statutory budget which would be submitted soon to enable the Administration to deliver more roads and other projects in rural communities.
Earlier, the Chief of Jiwa, Idris Musa, thanked Wike for constructing rural roads across the six area councils.
“Today is a great day for us and other Nigerians that are jampacked in Jiwa Chiefdom. The road you are constructing now, we are very grateful,” he said.
Musa, thereafter, announced the conferment of the traditional title of Jagaban (Chief Warrior) Kudu of Jiwa Chiefdom on the FCT Minister, making it the fifth title conferred on the minister by FCT communities.
With the inauguration of the Saburi road, the FCT Minister has now inaugurated the construction of six rural roads totaling 42.2 kilometres across the 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 Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC.
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