By Daniel Tyokua
The Minister of Works and Housing Mr. Babatunde Fashola has handed over the completed 1.636 internal road in Bayero University Kano to the school management.
In a statement issued on Thursday by the ministry’s Director Press, and Public Relations, Stephen Kilebi said the internal road construction and rehabilitation in tertiary institutions was part of president Buhari’s led administration commitment to bridge the gap in infrastructure needs of the Country.
Fashola who was represented by the Federal Controller of Works in Kano State, Yahaya Ali, said:”The gap of our Infrastructural need is steadily being bridged by the gradual process of repairs, renewal and reconstruction on major highways and it has reached the schools.”
“We have successfully intervened in the internal roads network of 46 Tertiary Institutions and handed over 29 as at 2021 and we now have another 17 ready to be handed over while we are currently attending to 30 roads in similar institutions across the country making a total of 76”.
The Minister revealed that efforts were being made for another intervention work on the internal roads of BUK that is three times bigger than the one that was being handed over to the University. This is in addition to the plan to construct a pedestrian bridge at the entrance gate of the institution to put a stop to the accidents that occur sometimes when people are trying to cross the road to the University.
In his remarks, the Vice Chancellor of the University , Professor Sagir Abbas who was visibly happy expressed gratitude to the Federal government and the Ministry for the intervention work adding that the road being handed over which leads to the solar plant of the institution was in a very bad shape before.
He said, ” We are really very grateful to the Minister and the Federal Government and we are appreciative of another gesture of coming in to rehabilitate more roads for us so we extend our gratitude to the Minister and the Ministry.”
The VC also disclosed that the University had received the award letter to the contractor that is coming to install transformers in the institution, adding that once that is done most of the problems of the school associated with power supply will be a thing of the past.
Mustapha Aminu, a Deputy Registrar in the University said in an interview, “Before the commencement of the project, this place was very hard to reach . Now with the completion of the road done by the Federal Government, it has linked the main road that leads to all parts of the University community. So it will make movement and other activities easier.I want to commend the effort of the Ministry for doing a great job.”
The Acting Director Establishment in the institute, Binta Yahaya Naisa said, ” The road was bushy, so bushy that sometimes people could not pass through. But now that the road has been constructed, it has opened up the place so much that you can see the next village from here.”
