Roads & Construction
Gov Ganduje Named N9bn Road Project After Pres Buhari In Kano
The governor of Kano State, Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State says the state government has earmarked N9 billion for the construction of a three-level interchange road project to be named after President Muhammadu Buhari.
Ganduje disclosed this when he addressed State House correspondents after he presented the proto-type of the road project to Buhari during a closed-door meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Monday.
He expressed optimism that the road project, which he described as the only one of its kind in Africa, would ease traffic congestion in the Kano metropolis.
He said: “I commissioned a group of engineers who visited all the world capitals, the most important one, and came up with a design.
“So this design is one of the world’s most interesting designs, interchange design in Kano State now when completed.
“So, it’s not an issue of Nigeria or issue of Africa, I beat my chest to tell you that it’s a blend of interchanges from different parts of the world, in order to ease traffic.
“Kano is a megacity, because of security situation many people are coming into Kano now, traffic is increasing, buildings are increasing because people from the Northeast, people from even Northwest are coming to settle in Kano, so the volume of traffic is increasing.
“We revised the master plan of Kano state and all those areas where we have hold-ups we either build underpass or we build a bridge, and now we have resorted to putting the three together in one place; that is a flyover, bridge and underpass, all at one point so that there’ll not be any traffic jam.”
