GANDUJE INSPECTS SHIEKH JAFAR – PANSHEKARA UNDERPASS, PROMISES MORE DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY TO KANO PEOPLE

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state yesterday (Tuesday) inspected construction of the third Kano city vehicular underpass, being constructed by the state government at the intersection of Sheikh Jaafar road and Panshekara/Madobi road in Kano metropolis. 

Contract for the project was awarded during the 8^th meeting of the state weekly Executive Council meeting on the 19^th August, this year, at the cost of N1, 125, 413, 808. 25.

Governor Ganduje, who stressed determination to ensure that the work is executed qualitatively and in good time, assured that the government would pay compensation for all property affected by the development.

He, therefore, urged people in the domain to cooperate with the contracting firm to ensure hitch – free work, appealing to motorists plying the adjoining roads to also exercise caution in view of movement of heavy plants and major engineering works going on in the area.

To ease traffic congestion, he said access roads would be constructed saying movement of goods service along the route would not be disrupted by the construction work.

The governor reassured people in the state that his government would complete projects inherited from the immediate past administration, appealing for cooperation and understanding to move the state forward.

Earlier, the Managing director of the state Water Board, Alhaji Auwalu Galdanci told the governor that his agency has already started excavating water pipelines along the affected roads to give way for the project.

The governor, who was accompanied to the site by the state Commissioner for Works and Housing, Alhaji Shehu Haruna Lambu, among other public officials, expressed satisfaction with level of work done so far on the underpass.

Halilu Ibrahim Dantiye, mni, fnge

Director – General, Media and Communications,

To the Executive Governor, Kano state