Managing director and chief executive officer of Kaduna Roads Agency (KADRA), Dr Abdullahi Baba Ahmed, has disclosed that Governor Uba Sani’s administration inherited many abandoned projects.
KADRA boss, who stated this while speaking with journalists after inspection of some ongoing rural road projects over the weekend, said some of the 62 new road projects have been completed, while others are at various stages of completion. He said Governor Sani’s administration had initiated 62 roads in the last 16 months, spanning over 700 kilometres across the three senatorial zones of Kaduna State.
The KADRA boss said most of the roads were deliberately located in the rural areas to boost the rural economy as part of Governor Uba Sani’s rural revitalisation programme; however, assured that all the abandoned urban road projects inherited from the previous administration will be completed in due course.
The KADRA MD said, “It is no longer news that this administration inherited so much debt, and we have so many abandoned projects which we inherited. But, there is a plan for the completion of these roads. We are prioritising these roads.
“All these are projects we inherited, taking them one after the other. The truth is that we cannot complete all the inherited projects at once because we have budgetary constraints, but we have a concrete plan to complete all these projects,” he said.
