Tinubu Providing Infrastructure For Economic Transformation–Wike

By: Wisdom Acka

President Bola Tinubu’s administration remains committed to the provision of infrastructure to Nigerian communities to ensure transformation of rural economies for sustainable growth and development.

FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, said this in Abuja on Friday, while flagging off construction of 7.2-kilometre road, linking Gaba and Tokulo communities in Bwari Area Council, FCT.

Wike revealed that Tinubu’s administration would take care of rural areas across the country with basic amenities; adding each of the six Councils in the FCT would benefit three of the rural roads.

Noting that lack of basic infrastructure in parts of the Territory was also a contributing factor to insecurity in the FCT, Wike stressed: “When you don’t have access to roads, it makes it difficult for even security agencies to carry out their jobs very well”.

“It is important to note that, while we are fighting insecurity, we must also provide basic infrastructure,” he said.

“All rural areas are agriculture-based, so, if you don’t provide access roads, how will they bring the produce to the market,” the Minister added.

Wike warned Civil Servants against unnecessary bureaucracy that would delay the timely delivery of the project; saying, “I am not going to tolerate that. Anybody who sabotages my efforts will also be sabotaged.”

He directed the contractor, Setraco Nigeria Ltd to employ the youths – males and females of the community as part of workforce to execute the project and urged the benefiting communities to take ownership of the project.

On her part, FCT Minister of State, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud, corroborated that rural road construction project was part of the Tinubu’s administration commitment to reduce infrastructural deficit in FCT.

Her words: “The 7.2 km Gaba to Tokula road may seem like a modest undertaking, but its impact will be far reaching. It will enhance connectivity and reduce the challenges of insecurity.”

Earlier, Chairman of Bwari Area Council, John Gabaya, said that the project when completed, would positively impact the socio-economic fabrics of the area.

Gabaya said that the road was first graded during Ibrahim Babangida military-led government, connecting about five communities.

He appealed to the Minister to complete some of the road projects embarked upon by the FCT Administration in the area but were yet to be completed.

Esu Bwari, Ibrahim Yaro, who thanked the Ministers for the gesture, conferred the traditional title of “Barde of Bwari” (Warrior of Bwari) on the Minister (Wike).

Yaro described Bwari as the food basket of the FCT and announced the donation of two cows and tubers of yam to Wike and the FCT Minister of State as proof.

Abuja Digest can authoritatevely recall that Wike was, on Thursday, while performing a similar function in Gwagwalada Area Council, conferred with a traditional title, Sarkin Yakin (Warlord) Paikon Kore.