Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano flagged off a total of seventy kilometers of roads across ten communities in the three senatorial districts in the state on Thursday.
The flag-off ceremony took place at Rijiyar Gwangwan and Mil Goma in the Dawakin Kudu Local Government area of Kano State.
A statement issued by the governor’s spokesperson, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, explained that the two locations out of the ten that are set to enjoy the various road networks have been allocated 14.7 km out of the total of 70 km.
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The road projects are going to be executed in partnership with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the Lives and Livelihood Fund (LLF) through the Kano State Agro-pastoral Development Project (KSADP) under the Kano State Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (KNARDA).
While flagging off the project, Gov. Abba Kabir Yusuf said his administration is determined to execute life-changing infrastructural development projects for rural communities in Kano State.
The statement added that a total of over eleven billion naira is earmarked for the seventy-kilometer rural access roads and road networks in semi-urban areas.
“In Dawakin Kudu, where today’s flag-off took place, the 7.2 km rural access road for Mil Goma to Yankatsari and the 7.5 km Rijiyar Gwangwan road networks, respectively, are expected to cost two billion, six hundred million naira (N2.6b) only,” the statement explained.