By Muhammad B. Muhammad
Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa State again performs the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of 7 Span Overhead Bridge along Yola – A. A. Lawan Junction and Half Cloverleaf Interchange at Yola-Numan Road.
These 2 projects are important because of their strategic status in completing the superhighway flagged off last year.
When the 2 flagged off overhead bridges are completed would bring to 5 number of flyovers in Yola, constructed by the Fintiri administration.
In his address at the event held at A. A Lawan Junction, Governor Fintiri believes that the projects would add not only municipal ecstatic to the city of Yola but provide the necessary convenience to commuters plying the road.
“The most impressive justification for the project, is the fact that it passes through Malkohi – a community that houses the 1000 Housing Estate which is the largest Housing estate ever embarked upon by any administration in the history of Adamawa State.”
With the speed at which Yola is expanding, attracting new residents and inhabitants by the day, Governor Fintiri opines that the the pressure on the limited urban facility is increasing just as the anticipated investment in the metropoles is growing.
He said the government must therefore brace up to mitigate the future challenges by putting in place necessary infrastructure that would positively respond to such geometric cosmopolitan growth and mutual socio-economic cross-pollination.
The member representing Yola North in the State House of Assembly, Alh Suleiman Umar Alkali noted that the projects are a testimony of the governor’s ability to overcome trafic challenges in the state capital
The Commissioner of Works and Energy Development, Alhaji Adamu Atiku Abubakar said the flag off of the two projects symbolize the commitment of Governor Fintiri to the advancement of Adamawa State to prosperity.
On his part, the Project Manager Yola office of Triacta Nigeria Limited, Eng. Ghassan Ghanem assured that the firm will ensure completion and execution of quality projects within the timeframe of 12 months.
The District Head of Karewa, Barrister Musa Abdu acknowledges that the construction of the flyovers in Yola was no doubt futuristic in nature, and people will ever remain grateful to the Governor for this act of magnanimity.
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