SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, (THEWILL) – The Federal Government is set to flag-off the reconstruction of 375.4km Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano road project.
The project which has a completion period of 36 months has been approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) and awarded in December 2017 to Julius Berger Nigeria Plc at a contract sum of N155, 470,626,078.07.
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola is expected to flag off the project.
Also, the two Ministers of State of the Ministry, Mustapha Baba Shehuri and Suleiman Hassan Zarma; Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje; his Kaduna State counterpart, Nasir El Rufai, Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Alhaji Muhammad Bello and Chairman of Senate Committee on Works, Senator Kabiru Gaya, will also attend the ceremony.
The road is expected to serve as major trunk road linking the south to the northern part of the country.
The work description showed that the entire stretch of the Zuba – Kaduna – Zaria – Kano road will be fully rehabilitated.
“The road has outlived its service life and is characterized with several failed sections and multiple potholes thereby necessitating the need for rehabilitation of the entire length of the road as the scope of repair works over the years proved inadequate as evidenced by continuous deterioration,” the contractors said in the brief.
“Major aspect of the work is the scarification of the existing asphaltic concrete on carriageway, bituminous surface on shoulders and the compaction of the existing base as sub-base as well as reformation of shoulders.”
