FCT community seeks Wike’s intervention over bad road

Residents of Kaido-Tsoho community, Dobi ward, in Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT have expressed concern over the dilapidated road in their community and appealed to the FCT Minister Nyesom Wike to intervene.

Some residents who spoke when Abuja Metro visited the community on Wednesday, said the stretch of road which connects Kaido and Sabo has remained uncompleted for over two years, thereby causing hardship to them, especially rural farmers in the area.

They said the road project, which is being handled by the authorities of the council, has been abandoned, adding that the contractor handling the project has not returned to the site for over two years.

A farmer in the community, Musa Dangana, said the dilapidated state of the road has become a nightmare to residents, especially farmers who find it difficult to transport their crops to the market in Gwagwalada.

He said the situation becomes worse during the rainy season, when the road becomes impassable, adding that residents are cut off from accessing neighbouring villages.

A youth leader of the community, Idris Suleiman Galadima, who spoke to our reporter, attested that the abandoned road project has caused serious challenges to both residents and farmers in the community.

He said the dilapidated state of the road has been affecting both social and economic activities in the community, noting that several pleas and mails have been sent to the council authorities without any intervention.

He said “the road is the only one that leads farmers to the market, as well as children to the community school. “Even those who go for medical treatment in Gwagwalada always find it difficult, especially pregnant women. In fact, our pregnant women fear going into labour at night due to the bad state of the road,” he said.

According to him, members of the community pulled resources together to buy big stones to fill some bad portions of the road, especially some swampy areas. And despite the fact that this year’s rain has stopped, vehicles still find it difficult to ply because some portions of the road are swampy. A vehicle got trapped in the swampy area last week while conveying crops to the market in Gwagwalada,” he said.

“And it is on this basis we are pleading with Barr Wike to intervene since the area council has failed to intervene in mobilising the contractors back to the site,” he said.

The chairman of the council, Alhaji Abubakar Jibrin Giri, did not respond to calls put across to him, but an official in the works department of the council, who craved anonymity, told our reporter that work on the abandoned road will resume next year.

“Actually, the council has already informed the works department about the Kaida-Tsoho road, and the contractor will be mobilized back to the site in January, next year.

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